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Jubilant Palestinians fired in the air and honked car horns yesterday, after Israeli troops pulled out of the last of four abandoned Jewish West Bank settlements, completing the final phase of the withdrawal it began in Gaza last month.
The final Israeli exit came after sundown Tuesday, when a few army vehicles left the empty settlements of Ganim and Kadim, next to the West Bank town of Jenin. Within minutes, thousands of celebrating Palestinians stormed in, setting rubble ablaze as gunmen fired in the air -- reprising the scenes in Gaza when Israel completed its pullout there last week.
The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the northern part of the West Bank marked the first time Israel has ever removed veteran settlements from territories claimed by the Palestinians for a state. Palestinians insist this must be followed by an Israeli exit from the rest of the West Bank.
While agreeing that some other settlements must go in a full peace accord, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he intends to strengthen main settlement blocs.
Earlier Tuesday, Israeli forces left the other two evacuated settlements in the northern West Bank. Palestinians climbed to the roof of the old British fortress in Sanur and hung banners with pictures of Hamas leaders. Palestinians also overran the fourth empty settlement, Homesh.
In Gadim and Kadim, celebrations continued yesterday. Militants said they would continue carrying out attacks in the West bank. "With these guns, we drove them out, and we will drive them out of other areas as well," said one masked gunman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a violent group with ties to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah movement.
The four settlements were emptied Aug. 23, a day after Israel removed the last of the settlers from all 21 Gaza settlements under Sharon's "disengagement" plan. Soldiers remained until Tuesday, when Israeli forces buried an empty synagogue building in Sanur, following a Cabinet decision not to tear down the abandoned synagogues.
Unlike Gaza, however, Israeli forces will continue to patrol the area, the military said, as it has not turned over control of the northern West Bank to the Palestinians.
Also Tuesday, a top Palestinian security official announced the Gaza-Egypt border would be opened over the weekend to allow some Palestinians to cross.
Israel shut the Rafah crossing before it withdrew from Gaza last week, saying that people traveling over the border would be temporarily routed through Israeli crossings, so it could ensure no weapons or militants entered Gaza.
After the Israeli pullout, the border exploded in chaos, with thousands of Palestinians and Egyptians clamoring over the wall to visit the other side.
Abbas said on Monday that despite the renovations, the Palestinians did not plan to open crossings without an agreement with Israel.
However, Palestinian National Security Adviser Jibril Rajoub said the border would be briefly opened over the weekend to allow Palestinians with special needs to cross.
A senior Israeli official said Israel would not object to the temporary opening. The official said humanitarian concerns were discussed with Egypt, and Israel "would try to accommodate them."
The terminal, once painted the blue and white of Israel's national colors, was being repainted plain white, the "color of peace," said site coordinator, Mohammed al-Aidi. Instruction signs in Hebrew lay on the floor waiting to be replaced. Turkish ceiling insulation and Jordanian aluminum partitions, used to organize travelers, were being installed in place of the Israeli ones.


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In a matter of days, the Chanel Rouge Allure Moiré Collection will be released. The new collection features nail and lip colors inspired by the opulence of precious fabrics and ribbons, and is translated into an assortment of dazzling lip and nail shades. The "moiré" aspect refers to a mother-of-pearl effect that enhances luminosity — which may explain the pearl effects of Le Vernis.
Here are some details from the collection:
Rouge Allure (Luminous Intense Lip Colour) – $34.00
Indécise – Shimmering Pink Beige
Étonnante – Bright Pearly Peach
Surprenante – Sparkling Fuschia
Impulsive – Bright Shimmering Pink Red (Limited Edition)
Audacieuse – Shimmering Pink Red (Limited Edition)
Énigmatique – Shimmering Brown Red
Ambigüe – Pearlescent Berry
Farouche – Shimmering Chocolate Brown
Rouge Allure Extrait de Gloss (Pure Shine Intense Colour Long Wear Lip Gloss) – $34.00
Réflexion – Shimmering Pink
Controversy – Brown Plum
Le Crayon Lèvres (Precision Lip Definer) – $29.00
Rose Poudré – Muted Rose (Limited Edition)
Rose Ardent – Bright Pink (Limited Edition)
Aqua Crayon (Lip Colour Stick) – $26.00
Vivid Rose – Bright Pink
Red Brown – Red Brown
Le Vernis (Nail Colour) – $27.00
Rose Moiré – Light Pearly Rose
Rouge Moiré – Pearly Red
This looks like a lovely collection, and I'm especially curious to see how the deeper, richer shades will look. They'll be the perfect accompaniment to Fall.

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Humane Bike Ride and Wine Tasting Event
Come join the fun and support a good cause at the Humane Bike Ride and Wine Tasting Event at Bruno & George Winery in Sour Lake on Saturday, Aug. 17.
There are three different bike routes: a 47-mile route and a 30-mile route beginning at 8:30 a.m., and an 18-mile route beginning at 9 a.m. Routes will be marked and maps provided. Rest stops will be set up along routes to refresh the riders. Sag Wagons will be patrolling routes to assist any riders in need. All riders must obey all traffic laws and MUST wear a certified helmet.
Lunch will be provided by Rose & August Polite followed by a wine tasting from Bruno & George Winery, and is a raffle benefiting the Humane Society for a dog and cat quilt designed, pieced and quilted by Kristin Shirley. The quilt is 68 x 81 inches. Chances are $5 each or six chances for $25. The drawing will take place Aug. 17 in Sour Lake. You need not be present to win. Tickets can be purchased at the Humane Society.
You may register anytime at Kick Stand Bike Shop (6366 Phelan Blvd. at the Colonnade in Beaumont) or 6-9 p.m. Aug. 16 at Sertinos Coffee Café (5657 Eastex Freeway) or from 8-9 a.m. Aug. 17 at Bruno & George Winery (400 Masenna Road in Sour Lake). For more information, contact Rose Polite at (409) 728-5651 or Kristin Shirley at (409) 651-9637.


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Neimen Marcus has begun sale of the Triton 1000 Submarine. In an acrylic bubble dome design straight out of The Jetsons, buyers will have a 360-degree view of the ocean floor (for depths up to 1000 feet).
A gemstone set joystick control maneuvers pilots as they pretend to be Jacques Cousteau or Sean Connery (depending on their personal level of coolness and choice of Sean Connery submarine driving character). Sure, the pleasure will run you $1,440,000, but realize that the price includes both the leather seat upgrade and two days of training so you don't kill yourself and make manufacturer U.S. Submarines look bad.
Is it me, or are personal submarines are the official toy of the pretty rich—that sweet spot where consumers want more than a nice sports car but aren't quite moneybags enough to play the "retire" and run a vineyard game? As gadget enthusiasts, death by overzealous octopus beats drinking your liver away with pride any day, but it's a close vote. [nm via gizmowatch]


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Mambo implements the core requirements of a full-featured CMS. It has a powerful and extensible templating system, user access control, content approval, rich administrative control, and content display scheduling. New features and extensions are added to the core system, with many more being available and supported by the community.
This book targets the 4.6 release of Mambo, and takes you through creating an example website. Beginning with a discussion of the requirements for the example site, the site unfolds as you progress through the chapters, learning more about Mambo, and how to complete the tasks needed to build the site.
You'll see the basic configuration options for setting up your site, and learn about Mambo's main elements as you work your way around its web-based administration area. As soon as you're familiar with the general principles and behavior of Mambo, it's time to pile on the features for your site; adding modules and components, uploading images and other resources, and managing templates. You will learn to use Mambo's powerful Universal Installer to effortlessly install add-ons that are not part of the standard distribution.
The pages on your site, how they are displayed, and who can see them, are determined by Mambo's menu system. With many examples of the different types of menu items, the book will lead you through the important tasks of creating menu items, and help you understand how these choices structure the pages on your site and ease your visitors' navigation.
You will see how to organize and enter your content into Mambo, and how to manage and edit this organization and your pieces of content. As we tackle user management, you will see how Mambo allows you to set up user accounts with different permissions, including a set of special users who can author or edit content. We also take a detailed look at the notifications that occur when content is submitted by these users. This analysis reveals how the Mambo publishing workflow process works, and how you can exploit it effectively. Moving on from the standard Mambo features, we look at some third-party extensions that add powerful discussion forum, event scheduling, and image gallery features to your site.
To create a new look for your site, you create a new template. We cover this, and even if you're no expert in web design, you will be taken through a number of basic tasks to create an impressive new design for your site.


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The premise of 21 and Over is pretty simple. Two friends head to Stanford University to surprise their old school buddy on his 21st birthday with a night on the town.
The jeopardy is created by the birthday boy needing to be home in time the next morning for the most important appointment of his life, his medical school interview.
At first Jeff Chang (Chon) is reluctant to head out with his visiting buddies Miller (Teller) and Casey (Astin), but he gets into the swing of things, downing shots, which he later throws up on a mechanical bull - in slow motion.
It's not long before Chang passes out, and 21 and Over becomes The Hangover meets i, with Chang dragged unconscious around campus as Miller and Casey try to work out where he lives. Everything you expect from American college life gets a look-in - sororities, frat parties, beer pong, pep rallies, a rampaging buffalo (okay, so maybe that's not expected), combined with an excess of swearing, Screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have stuck with the formula that worked so well with their screenplay for i. This time round they have for the first time also stepped into the directors' chairs, and the result is a fast-paced, crude, occasionally funny college version of i
What's missing is the endearing characters of the grown-up version - this lot are not an intolerable bunch of boys, but it's hard to get fussed about how this 24-hour bender works out for them.
21 and Over
Stars: 2 1/2/5
Cast: Miles Teller, Justin Chon, Skylar Astin Director: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore Running time: 93 mins
Verdict: A crude, chaotic, mildly amusing mess


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Natalie Gates has been selected as the new superintendent of Haleakalā National Park on the island of Maui in Hawai`i. Dr. Gates has worked at Point Reyes National Seashore in California for the last twelve years, first as a wildlife biologist, and then as chief of natural resource management. She will transition to her new duties at Haleakalā in March.
"Natalie has a strong track record in the protection of native species and ecosystems. She has proven she can solve complicated issues while respecting all the voices in the room," said Pacific West Regional Director Chris Lehnertz. "Natalie's deep respect for diverse cultures and communities and her team building skills will be an asset to Haleakalā National Park."
Dr. Gates graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Biology. She earned a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, and a Master's degree in Wildland Resource Management from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked in small animal veterinary clinics New York, Hawai`i and California. During her career in the National Park Service (NPS), in addition to her experience at Point Reyes, Dr. Gates has worked as acting superintendent of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area in eastern Washington and has completed detail assignments with the NPS Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs in Washington, D.C. and with the Office of Communications and Public Affairs at the NPS Pacific West Regional Office. In 2009 she was awarded the Pacific West Regional Director's Award for Natural Resource Management.
Haleakalā National Park is one of the oldest in the National Park System, established as part of Hawaii National Park in 1916, just weeks prior to the creation of the National Park Service itself. It was renamed in 1960 when it was split from what then became Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawai`i. Haleakalā encompasses both rain forests and arid ecosystems in lands ranging from sea level up to 10,000 feet, as well as significant Native Hawaiian cultural sites.
In accepting the position Dr. Gates said, "It will be an absolute privilege to work with the staff of Haleakalā National Park and local communities around it. Haleakalā is home to a treasure of cultural resources, natural resources and wilderness, and I look forward to working hard to preserve them." She added: "I plan on being an avid student of Haleakalā – its stories and its vital importance to Native Hawaiians."
In the coming weeks, Dr. Gates plans to move to Maui with her husband, Courty, their three sons, and their Labrador retriever.
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Led by a neuropsychologist, our team of rehabilitation specialists utilizes an evidence-based approach to treatment that is tailored to individual needs and goals. The program targets behavior management, social skills training, improving insight and awareness, and long-term psychosocial adjustment. This holistic approach serves to augment the natural healing process and promote the re-emergence of cognitive functioning.
This renowned outpatient program, available at Kessler's West Orange, Chester and Saddle Brook campuses, combines clinical expertise, advanced therapies and compassionate care to enable clients with brain injury to resume meaningful and productive lives.
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Kessler's CRP includes both individual and group sessions to best support each client's needs and progress. Our group sessions allow individuals of various levels of severity to gain a greater understanding of the challenges of living with brain injury, develop peer support and provides opportunity to mentor others.
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- Clients participate in individual treatment weekly
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- Compensatory strategies are introduced and long-term psychosocial adjustment is emphasized
- Program includes occupational, speech and vocational therapies, as warranted
- Individual challenges, including such issues as community/work re-integration, driving and advocacy, are addressed
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- Clients participate in five hours per day, three to five days per week
- Groups address reasoning skills, generalization of learning, and executive functioning
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In addition, because the involvement of family members is key to the rehabilitation process, Kessler provides regular communication through the clinical contact, holds monthly family meetings and organizes special events, such as "Family Day."
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On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress. See an image of the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives.
As always, this most American of holidays will be marked by parades, fireworks and backyard barbecues across the nation. In 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly-independent nation was 2.5 million. This year, the Department of Commerce's Census Bureau estimate is 313.9 million.
For fascinating figures on the Fourth's fireworks, flags, fanfares, firings (grills) and more, see the Census Bureau's Facts for Features.
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New Banking Trojan Steals Your Money Carefully
Last week we described how banking malware is getting more sophisticated. Now security vendor Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center has issued a report (their Cybercrime Intelligence Report, Issue 3, 2009) describing new techniques used by a new trojan and its operators that attempt to hide their activities from the user and banks with improved sophistication. They also report on users tricked into laundering money through their accounts.
The new trojan they describe is named URLZone, a botnet of about 6000 systems when they examined it. Not only does it conduct bank transactions on the user's system, but it monitors HTTP for the bank site and modifies the numbers that the user sees for transactions it conducts so that the user doesn't think much of it. It's also careful not to draw down too much so that the account goes out of balance. It steals between $4000 and $15000 from each account, but picks a random number to further evade anti-fraud systems. So far the activity has only been witnessed in Europe, specifically Germany, but it should work as well in the US.
The same gang hires people over the Internet for "work at home" projects and tricks them into accepting transfers from the victims of the bank crimes. The "money mules" unwittingly help the criminals to hide their activities. Finjan calls this "Anti-anti-fraud."
The full report includes screen shots of victim bank transactions, the command and control system and even source code for the command and control (apparently in Perl).
By not being greedy with each individual account and instead working to keep the heat off themselves the attackers made a pretty good total haul: around 300,000 euros in 22 days.
The anti-fraud measures evaded by this gang are perhaps the primary defense these days against bank fraud, so this attack is particularly troublesome. Nevertheless, it relies on a trojan operating on the user's system, so best practices can still defeat it: run as a less-privileged user, don't click on unsolicited links, run anti-malware, and keep your operating system and applications patched.


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Scotland/Alba Weather Discussion 2019
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Storm Atiyah arriving as a week of blink and you'll miss it weather gets underway
Storm Atiyah arrives as we end the weekend and head into the new working week. Very active, mobile and frequently changeable, 'blink and you'll miss it' type weather will then continue throughout. Read the full update here
Weekend weather: A quiet start but rain and severe gales loom as Storm Atiyah approaches
Many of us have started the weekend with dry, mild and quiet weather. But trouble is brewing with heavy rain and strong winds not far off. Storm Atiyah will be with us by the end of the weekend too. Read the full update here
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Winter Forecast Issued
Netweather forecasts posted a topic in Latest weather updates from Netweather,The Netweather long range forecast for Winter 2019 / 2020 has been issued.
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December 2019 C.E.T. and EWP forecast contests -- start of the 2019-2020 competition year
Roger J Smith posted a topic in Weather Discussion - Winter,Get your entries in for the December CET competition - the first one of the 2019/2020 competition year!
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Teleconnections - Interactions and Impact
Blessed Weather posted a topic in Weather Discussion - Winter,Track the teleconnections, their impacts and their interactions this Autumn and Winter.
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NOAA satellite images decoded. Daily images.
BurntFishTrousers posted a topic in Weather Discussion - Winter,Recently posted in the Hurricane Lorenzo thread some NOAA satellite images I was able to receive with a decent 137Mhz antenna and some decoding software. People were doing this sort of thing way back 15-20 years ago, but you don't see many images posted nowadays. It's still quite cool!
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What are these clouds?
Climate Man posted a question in Weather and Meteorology Q&A,I took the following pictures in the Alps at the end of September. I am not a great expert on clouds and wonder if someone can help with information about the type?
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Girls on Film: A Guide to the Rise of Catwoman
Girls on Film is a weekly column that tackles anything and everything pertaining to women and cinema. It can be found here every Thursday night, and be sure to follow the Girls on Film Twitter Feed for additional femme-con.
As soon as The Dark Knight Rises flooded the IMAX screen, I was convinced that nothing could eclipse the beauty of a crisp, 3D-free superhero action film. There was no blurry movement forcing your eye to one single spot on a gigantic screen. There was no jumpiness from a 3D feature flattened into 2D. It was a visual playground that made me smile with awe like a little kid discovering film for the first time. Then Anne Hathaway entered the frame. Through her skill and Christopher Nolan's artistry, she distilled Catwoman into her perfect feline essence, employing the iconic aspects of the antiheroine while filtering out the problematic interpretations of the last 70 years.
In 1940, "The Cat" was introduced to spice up Gotham. She would be, at once, an intriguing femme fatale invoking lust in Batman's world and in male comic fans, and a female Batman – a character women could relate to. It was a confused and problematic mix of oil and water, the male gaze clashing against female empowerment. It was a battle that reflected Batman creator Bob Kane's own views of women (as explained in Batman and Me):
"I felt that women were feline creatures and men were more like dogs. While dogs are faithful and friendly, cats are cool, detached and unreliable. I felt much warmer with dogs around me—cats are as hard to understand as women are. Men feel more sure of themselves with a male friend than a woman. You always need to keep women at arm's length. We don't want anyone taking over our souls, and women have a habit of doing that. So there's a love-resentment thing with women. I guess women will feel that I'm being chauvinistic to speak this way, but I do feel that I've had better relationships with male friends than women. With women, once the romance is over, somehow they never remain my friends."
In her first appearance, Catwoman is caught while in disguise. She struggles as Batman wipes off her makeup and responds: "Quiet or Papa spank!" She might be a formidable opponent, but she's also a conquest, their battles acting as a metaphor for the sex they can never have on the page. Selina continues to appear for over a decade, becoming an amnesiac flight attendant and a lying thief until she disappears in the '50s, presumably a victim of the rigid Comics Code Authority that wouldn't look kindly on a powerful, sexual, thieving woman.
It was Julie Newmar who made the old character an icon in 1966 with the beloved television whirlwind Batman. The sleek, black catsuit became Catwoman's costume of choice, matched with a modest mask and ears on top of flowing hair. Though an object of Bat lust, she gives just as much (maybe more) than she receives. In "The Cat's Meow," Catwoman even dares to make Batman's mind Jell-O and uses him for his body, explaining her plan as her eyes scour up and down Batman's tights-clad form. The show asks: "Will Batman be reduced to a handsome robot, fit only to serve Catwoman?"
Catwoman, as a formidable sex object, had the ability to turn the tables, to sexualize the hero and create a hungry, female gaze long before the catcalls during Magic Mike. Lee Meriwether and Eartha Kitt added their own spins in the movie and third television season, with a little more purring and grooming here, some more rolling wordplay there. As Catwoman, however, these actresses were always, ultimately, the temporary foil to Batman and Robin. Their job was to flirt and manipulate – to sexually distract Batman and give him a challenge until he prevailed. Nevertheless, they were competent women in command of their sexuality years before pieces like Charlie's Angels or Kill Bill. They strove to make sex and battle a level playing field while creating a firm idea in the mainstream psyche about what Catwoman should be.
By the '80s, a void began to emerge between the woman on the page and the woman on the screen. Frank Miller thrust Gotham into an exacerbated world of depravity, framing Selina Kyle as a prostitute in the city's seedy underworld, who creates her feline persona in response to Batman. There are no flirtatious encounters and she barely interacts with our favorite crusader. Unlike the television series, Catwoman's sexuality teases at male lecherousness and power, rather than any level, flirting tête-à-tête. On the page she becomes everything from a dominatrix to mayoral hopeful, and today, a spine-free sexpot of ridiculous comic covers.
While the comics strove to give Catwoman a sexy, seedy past, cinema strove to frame Catwoman as the dead, repressed, inept office help brought back to life as a feline thief with strong dominatrix tendencies. Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle had the right sexy charisma to charm audiences, a queen thriving in a terrible film, wreaking her revenge while showing off an uncanny ability to make facial licking look sexy. She became a new comic icon during the sex-positive world of third-wave feminism; sex was her empowerment more than strength or cleverness. Selina is fragmented and off-kilter, powerful but unhinged. Her existential crisis makes her appealing to Bruce Wayne and Batman, but she's at a frazzled disadvantage, even with her rather poetic moment of inner resolve when she "kisses" Max Shrek, kills him along with her eighth life, and disappears to live her last life.
Undoubtedly, Warner Bros. was hoping to elaborate on Pfeiffer's incarnation when they made Catwoman in 2004, taking the same basic idea and infusing it with more inner resolve and feminist declarations, but it was hollow feminism framed through men's eyes (John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris and John Rogers), and it was utterly ridiculous. Halle Berry's Patience Phillips is a talented but socially awkward office minion, killed when she snoops on her baddie bosses and brought back to life by magical cat breath like a twisted version of Cat's Eye. She might get a chance to be on her own – there's not even a mention of Bruce Wayne – but Patience/Catwoman is tied down in a whirlwind of bad acting, bad writing, bad CG and, basically, bad everything. Declarations of freedom, womanhood and power ring hollow, and instead of acting like an empowering female figure, or a problematically entertaining antiheroine, she became the opposite – the leading reason why Hollywood shouldn't offer female-centric superhero movies. Female empowerment became a sign of cinematic oppression and discomfort.
Though 2012 kindly ushered in a world of action heroine excitement, between the sharp arrows of Katniss Everdeen and the wild gun-wielding skills of Natasha Romanov, Anne Hathaway had everything against her in The Dark Knight Returns. In one supporting role, she had to wipe away memories of Patience "Catwoman" Phillips while also eradicating the casting fears that bubbled forth when her name was released. She was entering a world still sore about the awkward casting of Katie Holmes and the demise of Maggie Gyllenhaal's Rachel Dawes. Her Catwoman had to rise above complaints about Nolan's heroines.
Like many modern heroines, oppressive expectations were laid on her shoulders and Hathaway tackled them as if she was the real Catwoman. It begins the minute she enters the film, delivering Bruce Wayne his dinner, snooping and getting caught. In one brief moment, she morphs from meek, curious help to self-assured powerhouse. Catwoman's power is exemplified as much through Hathaway's slight mannerisms as it is through exposition and plot, and it's real, human authority. She isn't magically licked or hot-breathed back to life. Her power isn't some magical construct – it's the manifestation of her life and experience, just like Batman's.
For any critique that may have been lobbed at Nolan in the past, with the help of David S. Goyer he created a heroine who manages to stay true to her roots while simultaneously pleasing both male and female audiences with varied expectations. She's the first true embodiment of Kane's decades-old plan to be tantalizing and empowering, the female version of Bruce Wayne without any gratuitous leaps or feminine traps.
She's never "Catwoman" with quirky feline movements. Her catsuit is functional for her acrobatic thieving, its sexiness exemplified in her power and form rather than zippers unzipped to the navel and magically suctioned to the body. "I love the costume because everything has a purpose, nothing is in place for fantasy's sake," she said on set. Her "ears" are goggles that flip up when not in use. Like the cat women before her (and practically every sexy ass-kicker) she wears stilettos, but they're practical – metallic spears she wields as weapons. Her voice lowers as Catwoman, breathing like Hedy Lamarr (one of Bob Kane's inspirations for the character) but not purring and meowing. She flips, kicks and battles, but as a human woman rather than an almost-cat.
She is a mother figure to Holly, a character from Frank Miller's incarnation, but neither are prostitutes struggling under oppressive pimps. In fact, their relationship allows a wildly masculine film pass the Bechdel test. Selina loves jewelry, but it's a random desire rather than defining characteristic. She has romantic feelings but isn't a puppet to them. She's never a helpless victim; instead, she holds her own easily and gets to be the charisma behind the turmoil, a modern and female Han Solo torn between good deeds and bad – instrumental to Gotham, and Wayne's, salvation.
Being given the same rights and humanity as the heroes who came before her – men like Batman, Spider-Man and Superman – Catwoman is given the chance to be just as attention-demanding as her male counterparts. The script and subsequent film aren't clutching for some intangible magic to make her a sexpot, or to give her feminist power. She manages to exude both because her character just is that way. She's sexy because she looks great in her clothes (without having to unzip them or partake in raunchy sex scenes in ejaculate-producing owl ships), she has charisma just like Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne, and she's a feminist powerhouse because she exudes competent power rather than spewing hollow manifestos.
Hathaway is interested, yet cautious, about the rising idea of a new Catwoman spin-off: "I think it would be lovely to see more of her, but only if it's with the right people. She lives in this Gotham City and so it would have to be established by the people who have made this Gotham City. For me, at least." Nolan's officially out, but loves the idea of a spin-off and maybe – just maybe – he can find capable hands that would lure Hathaway back to help fill the screen with more superheroine awe. And then, if we're lucky, the idea of kick-ass, capable women can break out of the strict sexual mold, gain respect for their power, and interviewers won't flood actresses with questions about diets as costars gush about cuteness and sexiness.
Could Catwoman be our (anti)superheroine salvation? She might just be the best bet DC/Warner Bros. has.
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Former pro-wrestling diva "Sunny" is being held on $100,000 cash bond after being arrested in Branford, Conn. on Tuesday. It was her second arrest in two days and her fifth in the past month.
Tamara Sytch, 39, of Staten Island, New York, was found intoxicated and sleeping at her prior residence at 7 p.m. on Monday, which violates protective orders issued for previous domestic violence charges, according to police. On Tuesday, she was again arrested when she was found at her ex-boyfriend's home.
When the bond amount was announced, the judge said the time had come after she appeared in his courtroom twice in two days.
Her ex-boyfriend told police he came home around 5:30 p.m. on Monday and found Sytch passed out on the coach, according to court records.
Police found an empty bottle of alcohol on a table near the couch that Sytch had been on, according to police, and there was a large hole in the bathroom door.
Sytch's ex-boyfriend said Tamara had been in the bathroom, yelling and rambling, then kicked down the entire door, according to court documents.
He told police they had been dating for several months and she had lived with him for two months, but she has a problem with alcohol and had been in rehabilitation for a month, according to court records.
Police said they found Sytch on the bedroom floor under a large white blanket. Officers pulled back the blanket and told Sytch to get up several times, but she refused.
Sytch appeared to be drunk, slurred her speech and smelled of alcohol, according to police.
There is a protective order against Sytch that prevents her from assaulting, threatening, abusing, harassing, following, interfering with or stalking her ex-boyfriend, according to police. She has also been ordered to stay away from his home, not contact him and not come within 100 yards of him.
Officers took her into custody and double locked the handcuffs, according to court documents.
She was taken into custody on Tuesday after returning to the same house, according to Capt. Geoff Morgan, of the Branford Police, and is being held without bail.
A bail bondsman dropped her off down the street from the house around 4 p.m., Sytch went to the house, climbed the balcony and went in through an unlocked door, according to police.
At the police department, Sytch told police that she was at the house to get some clothes and her cell phone.
She knew her ex-boyfriend would not be home, so she did not think she was violating the restraining order requiring her to stay 100 yards away from him by going to the unoccupied residence, according to police.
Public Defender certified intern Edward Murphy said Sytch went back to the condo to get her belongings. She didn't have a cell phone and didn't know how to get to Branford police for an escort, he said.
In September, Sytch was arrested three days in row in connection with domestic violence charges.
Sytch went by "Sunny" in the WWE. Her bikini issue of RAW Magazine sold a record number of copies, according to WWE.
WWE has sent Sytch to rehabilitation several times.
"As part of WWE's Former Talent Rehabilitation Program, we sent Ms. Sytch to rehabilitation three times, with all costs covered by WWE. Unfortunately, Ms. Sytch continues to make poor personal choices. WWE will continue to provide assistance should she want to take advantage of it," WWE said in an an e-mailed statement on Tuesday.
On Sept. 11, police took Sytch into custody at 8:55 p.m. and charged her with disorderly conduct.
At 4:49 p.m. on Sept. 12, police again took Sytch into custody and charged her with disorderly conduct, strangulation in the third degree and violation of protective order. She was held on $25,000 bond and arraigned in New Haven Superior Court on Thursday.
At 8 p.m. on Sept. 13, Branford police again took Sytch into custody and charged her with violation of protective order.
She was held on $25,000 bond and arraigned in New Haven Superior Court.
Sytch has been charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief in the third degree and three counts of violation of a protective order.
Sytch was arraigned in New Haven court this morning and is due in court next on Oct. 30.
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Her biography on the WWE Superstars Web site said she managed three teams to the World Tag Team Championship, was AOL's "most downloaded woman of 1996," and she is a two-rime Slammy Award winner.
According to the Online World of Wrestling, she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.


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Date(s) - May 14, 2020
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Join us every Thursday for our weekly New Frontiers format Force of Will tournament, a great way to have some fun and meet other Force of Will players. The tournament is open to players of all skill levels, so feel free to come and play regardless of your experience and have fun!
Entry is $6 and includes a pack of your choosing, as well as a special promotional card. Additional prizing is available based on tournament turnout and player standings (more details below).
New Frontiers: Cards from the last 2 Clusters (sets listed below) can be used. In addition, the following cards may not be used:
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The former San Ysidro schools superintendent is refusing to answer questions in a lawsuit that could cost the district $18 million, as district lawyers say his responses could be used against him in a criminal corruption case.
Manuel Paul, who was placed on paid leave after being indicted in January, refused to answer virtually every question during a deposition earlier this month.
"On the advice of my attorney, I assert my Fifth Amendment privilege and respectfully decline to answer," Paul said again and again, reading from a statement.
In court papers, lawyers for the district previously described Paul as a key witness in the civil case, a breach-of-contract action filed by a company hired to build solar projects on San Ysidro campuses. More recently, they supported his decision not to answer questions and unsuccessfully asked a judge to block release of video showing his less-than-forthcoming testimony.
Paul is just one of 15 people facing criminal charges in a contracting probe in three South County districts. Many of the region's poorest families placed their trust in elected officials — once by electing them and again by saying yes to more than $1 billion in school improvement measures. The officials now stand accused of violating that trust by seeking personal gain from construction companies. They have pleaded not guilty.
The criminal case followed a series of U-T Watchdog reports focused on contractor relationships with school officials. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis called the matter one of the worst examples of public corruption she has pursued.
The pay-to-play allegations have undermined public confidence in the districts and prompted officials to divert resources from classrooms to severance packages — one for Paul and, before him, for ousted
Should Manuel Paul say what he knows to help San Ysidro defend against the solar lawsuit?
Yes 87% (288)
No 13% (44)
332 total votes.
"The voters are going to be very leery about what's asked of them in the future," said Josie Hamada, a retired teacher now working to recall three San Ysidro board members. "They're going to be more savvy. They're going to ask more questions."
Paul's lawyer, James Fitzpatrick, said it was his decision for Paul not to answer questions.
"It's just totally precautionary on my part," FitzPatrick said. "Mr. Paul was eager to answer the questions. No problem. But he understood my advice. The game has changed because of the (criminal) filing. No one can draw any type of adverse inference from somebody's decision to assert their constitutional rights."
The silence of a key witness could hurt the chances for San Ysidro, where 80 percent of families qualify for federal lunch assistance. With a $40 million budget, a multimillion dollar case is important. The district is already confronting double-digit budget cuts in each of the next three years and has issued pink slips to 14 teachers.
Earlier this month, trustees voted to let Paul go. He will remain on paid leave through June 30, qualify for an additional year on his pension and receive at least one year's pay. His base salary was $181,000 as of late 2012, up from $165,000 two years earlier.
The severance package, approved on a 3-2 vote, prompted the recall effort against the three board members who supported the arrangement.
Attorneys for the San Ysidro district would not discuss Paul's silence in the lawsuit by EcoBusiness Alliance, the company hired to install the solar power systems. In court filings, they argued the responses could taint the jury pool and harm Paul's criminal defense.
"Defendants have legitimate concerns, with factual support, that plaintiffs intend to disseminate the transcript and video of Paul to the media in order to gain an unfair economic advantage in the instant litigation, unduly influence and prejudice the jury pool in this action against the district, and prejudice Paul's defense in defending the criminal charges against him," the lawyers wrote.
Paul's deposition — his third in the case — was taken April 17 and lasted 34 minutes, according to a video obtained by the Watchdog. Paul asserted his Fifth Amendment right 43 times.
San Ysidro school board President Jason Michael-Bradley Wells defended the severance package, saying it was the most expedient and least expensive way to end the relationship. He said Paul will be required to repay the money if he is convicted. Wells said he understands and agrees with the lawyers' advice to Paul not to answer any more questions.
"The plaintiff in this case has been brutal with lies, antagonism and bullying at a personal level against several people involved in the district," he said. "The depositions have had nothing to do with solar panels and business contracts."
The San Ysidro district educates about 5,200 students between kindergarten and eighth grade at seven schools. The district entered into an agreement with EcoBusiness Alliance to supply solar projects at the district's schools, but the deal went south after Paul recommended the contract be canceled for nonperformance.
The company claims the contract was wrongly terminated and sued last year for $18 million.
In previous depositions related to the civil suit, Paul admitted accepting $2,500 in cash from a contractor named Loreto Romero, who was trying to secure work from the district. Paul accepted the handoff in his Mercedes-Benz in the parking lot of a steak house on Broadway.
Paul later said the money was a campaign contribution that would pay for signs for incumbent Trustee Yolanda Hernandez. Hernandez also was indicted in the criminal case.
The Watchdog reported in November that federal agents are conducting their own investigation into the $2,500 transaction, and in December reported that state political regulators were reviewing it. Those probes are unrelated to Dumanis' corruption case, set for trial next year.
In defending the EcoBusiness Alliance complaint, San Ysidro's legal team repeatedly said Paul was a key witness.
"The district needs Mr. Paul's substantive testimony to defend against the lawsuit," lawyers wrote in a January motion. "Manuel Paul is a critical witness to the defense of the district's case," they wrote in another brief.
Defense attorneys on Thursday asked the court to seal both the deposition transcript and video, but Judge Steven R. Denton declined.
"As far as I know, I'm not authorized to preclude the parties from discussing this issue with whoever they want," Denton said. "I'm not in a position to grant the relief you've requested."
Patrick Prindle, the EcoBusiness Alliance lawyer, said that despite three sworn depositions, Paul has yet to explain why he recommended the contract be canceled.
"Instead of telling us what that information is, Mr. Paul asserted his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent," he said. "Only Mr. Paul knows why answering that simple question would subject him to criminal liability."
Prindle said his client's systems would have saved the district up to $16 million in electricity costs without having to pay to install the solar equipment.
"Instead, it has spent hundreds of thousands of public funds for legal fees to keep EcoBusiness Alliance from fulfilling its contract," he said.
Erika Barajas, a parent in the district, said Paul should answer the questions if it will help the district's case.
"Mr. Paul left us in the big hole and he knew this," she said. "I think he doesn't talk because everything will come out if he does. It's not fair what he's done with our kids' money. Our schools are going down the hill."


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Holy Communion – One of the most important services for Christians. In it we remember Jesus' death by sharing bread and wine. Everyone is welcome to come along and you can either share in the bread and wine if you feel hungry for God, or receive a blessing, or stay in your seat as you wish.


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One question frequently comes up when The Agenda discusses the recent story about how the employees of Boston Beer Company sometimes spend hours helping small companies tackle the myriad problems of managing and building a business.
The question is this: Don't those employees have enough to do in their own jobs? Shouldn't they be solving Boston Beer's problems?
Companies that borrow money through the Brewing the American Dream program, which Boston Beer runs in partnership with a microlender, Accion, are presented with an extraordinary opportunity.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
RIP Tony Curtis
"Some Like it Hot" star and father of Jamie Lee Curtis suffered cardiac arrest.
By Gil Kaufman
From sword-and-sandal epics to the most famous drag show in movie history, Hollywood legend Tony Curtis did it all during his long career on the screen. The actor died on Wednesday in his Las Vegas of cardiac arrest at the age of 85.
Though he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as a an escaped convict in 1958's "The Defiant Ones," Curtis is best remembered for his role alongside Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot." A dashing ladies man with a reputation for a wandering eye, Curtis donned women's clothes in the movie to play a jazz musician on the run from the mob who, along with cohort Lemmon, makes the acquaintance of singer Sugar Kane (Monroe). Hilarity ensues.
Through more than 140 movies Curtis was the 1950s equivalent of a modern metrosexual, known for his sculpted pompadour hair, dreamy blue eyes and dashing looks, which accompanied what the New York Times described in an obituary as a "dramatically potent combination of naked ambition and deep vulnerability, both likely products of his Dickensian childhood in the Bronx."
Curtis, the son of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, was born Bernard Schwartz in Hell's Kitchen, New York, on June 3, 1925. Father Emanuel owned a tailor shop, behind which the family lived in cramped quarters. Mother Helen was a schizophrenic who often beat Curtis and his two brothers. When his parents couldn't provide for their children during the Great Depression, Curtis and one of his brothers were put in a state institution in 1933, and the actor often spoke of the rabid anti-Semitism he suffered when he returned to his old neighborhood. Younger brother Julius died at age 12 after being struck by a car.
Following a stint in the Navy during World War II, Curtis began acting lessons in New York and quickly landed a contract with Universal Pictures in 1948, beginning a string of small movie roles that led up to 1952's "No Room for the Groom," in which he first showed off his ace comedic timing.
Off screen, Curtis was legendary for his way with women, which resulted in six marriages and liaisons with such Hollywood icons as Monroe and Natalie Wood. His first marriage in 1951 was to actress Janet Leigh, his co-star in 1953's "Houdini," Curtis' first box office hit. Popular, but not taken seriously, Curtis finally gained notice for his acting chops in 1957's "Sweet Smell of Success," which he followed up with "The Defiant Ones," portraying a prisoner who escapes a Southern chain gang while shackled to fellow convict Sidney Poitier. As the civil rights movement was just gaining steam, the sight of the black and white actors chained together was a potent symbol for the nation's upcoming struggles and earned Curtis his only recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He went on to a string of successful starring roles in the late 1950s and 1960s, including "Operation Petticoat," "Spartacus," "The Outsider" and "The Great Race." His career was thrown off track in 1962 when he divorced Leigh — with whom he had daughter Jamie Lee Curtis — after an affair with a 17-year-old German actress named Christine Kaufmann, whom he married the next year. That marriage only lasted five years. Curtis gave it another shot shortly after divorcing Kaufmann in 1968 when he married 23-year-old model Leslie Allen.
The 1970s found Curtis retreating to undistinguished roles in TV shows, such as "The Persuaders" and "Vegas," and a few B-movies. An admitted drinker and addict, Curtis went to rehab in 1982 following his divorce from Allen. He continued to pop up in small films and pursue his second love, painting.
His final film appearance was in the 2008 indie "David & Fatima," in which he played a character named Mr. Schwartz.
CURTIS, Tony (Bernard Schwartz)
Born: 6/3/1925, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 9/29/2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
Tony Curtis' westerns - actor:
Sierra - 1950 (Brent Coulter)
Winchester '73 - 1950 (Doan)
Kansas Raiders - 1950 (Kit Dalton)
The Rawhide Years - 1955 (Ben Matthews)
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This year, one of the state�s largest celebrations of chocolate is offering a variety treats to taste buds two weeks early.
This year, one of the state�s largest celebrations of chocolate is offering a variety treats to taste buds two weeks early.
Organizers of the 11th annual Carolina Chocolate Festival are pleased to introduce two new events that are bound to cause a sugar rush starting this Saturday in Morehead City. Created with the purpose of providing charity and chocolate to the community, the festival provides entertaining and delectable events that satisfy cravings and help to raise thousands of dollars each year for local organizations. Event coordinator Judy Hailey said that the festival�s late creator John Greene boldly pursued the idea to use chocolate as a way to raise funds for several local charities. So far, the event has raised $350,000 for these charities in the past 10 years.
�The festival itself averages 8 to 10,000 during two day weekend and 12,000 at all of the events,� Hailey said. �We�ve definitely reached out and on limb and tried to increase our events in order to be able to donate. Everyone with these organizations is committed volunteers of the community and that makes a difference too.�
This Saturday, guests will indulge in Mexi Cocoa from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Morehead City Train Depot, an event that pays homage to the birthplace of chocolate. Local restaurants including Channel Marker Restaurant and Beaufort Too Grocery will provide the food as well as wines and beers to taste.
�We have expanded this event with Mexican beers and wines as well tasting of Mexican dishes of course,� Hailey said. �These delightful dishes will have chocolate ingredients in them that makes a nice evening out.�
On Jan. 27, Chef Charles Parks will share a few of his favorite brunch entrees mixed with chocolate during the Choco Bruch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Beaufort Grocery Too.
�Beaufort Grocery Two has teamed up with partners for the brunch to add chocolate features to those entrees on Sunday,� Hailey said. �The tickets are $25 and funds will go for not only for a great brunch but will raised for our charities.�
Another new addition to the event is the first Chocolate 5K Run/Walk beginning at 8 a.m. on Feb. 2 to kick off the opening of the festival. Open to all runners and walkers, the flat course will start and finish at the Crystal Coast Civic Center.
From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, chocolate vendors will offer a variety of samples including chocolate cakes, tortes, chocolate bars and ice cream during the main festival at the Crystal Coast Civic Center. An hourly pudding eating contest and chocolate door prizes will offer visitors chocolate rewards and one lucky winner will be surprised to find a golden ticket in a chocolate bar. Other events include the Chocolate Spa from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Carteret Community College, the Chocolate Pro/Am Baking Challenge at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Chocolate Drop Bingo from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
The Wilmington Wine & Chocolate Festival will also make its return this year, with more than 40 regional wine makers, chocolatiers, bakers, and artisans heading to the Coastline Event Center on Feb 1-3. The Grand Tasting will take place on Friday from 7 to 10 p.m., with live entertainment by Sharp Nine Jazz Ensemble featuring Nina Repeta, Roger Davis, and Madafo Lloyd Wilson.
The marketplace will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Visit the wineries and chocolate shops, enjoy Sips and Nibbles from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and sample popular wines and sweets that will be available for purchase by the glass, bottle, or case and in serving sizes to large quantities until 10 p.m.
The Wilmington Wine and Chocolate Festival is the major fundraiser for the Volunteer Older Citizens Action League and its mission to respond to the many challenges facing seniors in the community.
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� Carolina Chocolate Festival�s newest event, MexiCocoa will take place Jan. 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Morehead City Train Depot. Choco Bruch will be held Jan. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Beaufort Grocery. Tickets are $25 per person for each event.
The Chocolate 5K Run will begin at 8 a.m. on Feb 2. at Carteret Community College/CMAST Building. Registration is $15 per person or $40 for a family of four.
The Main Festival will be held Feb. 2-3 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Crystal Coast Civic Center. Tickets are $8 for adults, $2 for children 5-12;(under 5 free). Active duty military personnel will be given free admission on Sunday with military I.D.
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� The Wilmington Wine & Chocolate Festival will be held on Feb. 1-3 at Wilmington�s Historic Coastline Event Center, located at 503 Nutt Street. The Marketplace will be open Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Feb. 3 from noon to 4 p.m. Tickets for the Saturday Marketplace are $20 in advance or $25 at the door and for the Sunday Marketplace are $15 in advance or $17 at the door. Tickets for the Friday evening Grand Tasting from 7 to 10 p.m. are $50 in advance or $55 at door. Tickets may now be purchased at WilmingtonWineAndChocolateFestival.com or at service desks at all area Harris Teeter stores in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender County stores. Tickets at the door are subject to availability. For more information, call 910-742-0120.


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Colo. prosecutor: Cancer hoax may not violate any laws
GYPSUM, Colorado – The story began circulating in October: A boy with leukemia had moved with his family to spend his final days in the Colorado mountains.
The Eagle Valley High School team in Gypsum drew inspiration from the tale and dedicated a game to the 9-year-old boy known as Alex. A radio station took up the cause, and a Facebook page bearing his picture drew more than 1,000 followers.
However, the story began to unravel when he failed to show up at the game, and the woman spreading the story said he suffered a seizure and could not attend. It wasn't long before she said he died.
She submitted an obituary to local media, but no one could find a death certificate, The Vail Daily reported.
Police are now calling the story a hoax and investigating whether it violated any laws.
"This story just shows the best of human nature and the worst of human nature," said Holli Snyder, general manager of NRC Broadcasting, parent company of KSKE, which broadcast the story.
Authorities are trying to determine if the 22-year-old woman who spread the story collected any money from the hoax, Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said Thursday.
So far, they haven't found any evidence that she did.
"It hinges on whether any money was taken," Hurlbert said about the possibility of charges.
The woman has not been identified by authorities. The photo of the boy was traced to a Kids Cancer Crusade website and turned out to a South African boy who is still alive.
People told the newspaper they felt guilty about perpetuating the hoax but proud about the way the community came together to support a child and make his final days happy ones.
"This story took my heart," said disc jockey Jordon Lyles, who played songs dedicated to Alex at a fall festival. "We are all just good people, when it comes right down to it."
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|Yorba Linda, Calif.
|High School:
|Esperanza HS
As a junior, Chelsey tallied 312 total digs, third on the team ... She had an average of 2.81 digs per set... She was one of four Gauchos to appear in all 111 sets... She totaled 19 aces, placing her third among her teammates... On Nov. 13, Chelsey recorded 30 digs against Pacific, a career-high, and followed up that performance with a 29-dig match against UC Riverside ... She had four games in which she recorded at least 18 digs.
As a sophomore - her first season as a Gaucho - she made the move to libero ... Finished eighth in the Big West with her 3.71 digs per set ... Tallied 442 total digs, over 100 more than her next closest teammate ... Was one of only four players to see action in all 119 of UCSB's sets ... Was third on the team with 27 service aces, holding an average of 0.23 per set ... Her 0.29 aces per set in Big West action was eighth in the conference ... In conference play, Chelsey averaged 3.52 digs per set ... Had a career-high 26 digs twice - on Oct. 13 vs. Pepperdine and Oct. 23 at UC Irvine ... Had double-digit digs in all but five matches ... Picked up at least 20 digs in five matches and had at least 15 digs in 15 matches ... In NCAA Tournament match vs. St. Mary's had 18 digs ... Had three service aces on three occasions, all against nationally-ranked teams - Sept. 4 at San Diego, Sept. 26 vs. UC Irvine and Oct. 23 at UC Irvine ... Posted 23 digs on three separate occasions.
University of San Francisco
Played in 67 games, spanning 27 matches in her freshman season...Averaged 1.40 digs per set and finished sixth on the team with 94 total digs...Tallied nine service aces...Had 37 kills, an average of 0.55 per set...Assisted on four blocks...Also had 12 assists...Team finished second in West Coast Conference before losing in first round of NCAA Tournament to Duke (3-2).
High School
A 2008 graduate of Esperanza High where she was a three-year letter-winner... three-time All-Sunset League, including a first team selection as a senior... won team MVP honors after averaging a double-double as a senior...Played for coach Isaac Owens...Lifted the Aztecs to a pair of Sunset League titles...Helped Esperanza to CIF Division 1-AA title in 2005 where the Aztecs were state regional finalists...Named All-Tournament Team at the Torrey Pines Tournament in 2005...Named to Orange County All-Star Team in her senior season...Also competed in the high jump where she finished second in the Sunset League and qualified for the CIF championships.
Played for Golden West for five years under Kevin Hitt and Craig Pizanti...Also played one year for the Long Beach Volleyball Club for coach Carlos Briceno...Helped Golden West club team to a Junior Olympics runner-up showing and earned all-tournament honors... also competed on the beach and took third in the AAU in Huntington Beach.
Chelsey Anne Lowe was born April 3, 1990 in Anaheim, Calif. to Jerry and Kathy Lowe ... Is a global studies major at UCSB ... Career aspiration is to become a teacher or do something in business/design ... Was a Scholar Athlete (3.0 GPA or higher) at USF ... Was also on Principle's List at Esperanza and High Honor Roll ... Nickname is C-Lowe ... Enjoys going to the beach, eating frozen yogurt, taking naps, reading, snowboarding, vacationing in Mexico and going to the lake ... Favorite movie is "Zoolander" ... Enjoys reading the Twilight and Harry Potter series and also lists each among her favorite flicks ... Calls her parents her personal heroes...Most memorable athletic achievement is making the NCAA Tournament in 2009 with the Gauchos ... Sister, Brittany, was a two-time All-WCC First Team outside hitter at Santa Clara.


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A witness' testimony via Skype was bombarded with unsolicited calls, in what appeared to be pranksters' attempts to interrupt the testimony.
Scott Pleasants, a criminal justice professor at Seminole State College, had been called to testify about Zimmerman taking an online criminal justice course in 2011. About one minute into Pleasants' testimony, delivered from Colorado, an onslaught of incoming Skype calls began to pop-up on the television screen in the courtroom, which interfered with the testimony.
Apparently, Pleasants' Skype username was visible on the television screen in the Sanford, Fla., courtroom, as well as to everyone watching the trial across the country, prompting the slew of prank Skype phone calls accompanied by the service's trademark "ping" sounds.
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Toward the end of the prosecutor's examination, the calls had become so numerous that the judge had to intervene and order Pleasants to end the Skype call.
"I got to tell you, there's now a really good chance that we're being toyed with, just so you know." Zimmerman defense attorney Mark O'Mara said as the calls stacked up.
Pleasants is seen balancing a cell phone in one hand and attempting to close several pop-up windows of the incoming Skype phone calls, as Circuit Judge Debra Nelson and the attorneys try to figure out what to do.
"I don't want those up on the screen," Nelson said. "Let's find another number that we could call Professor Pleasants on."
Pleasants' testimony continued, but was conducted via a more traditional telephone connection.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed teenager. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in self-defense after Martin attacked him on Feb. 26, 2012, in the gated Sanford, Fla., community where the two encountered each other. Martin died of a single gunshot wound; Zimmerman was photographed by police that night with a bloody, swollen nose and wounds to the back of the head.
Zimmerman alleges Martin straddled him after punching him in the nose and banged his head repeatedly against the sidewalk, warning him before Zimmerman fired a shot at him, "You're going to die tonight."


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Scientific Pursuits
- Gain entrance to Rivet City
- Talk to Doctor Li about Dad and Project Purity.
- Look for Dad in Project Purity's Control Room.
- Search Dad's holotapes for clues to his location.
- Listen to Dad's personal journal entry 10.
- Gain access to Vault 112.
- Put on a Vault 112 suit.
- Sit in the unoccupied "Tranquility Lounger".
- Psycho
- 10mm Rounds (M)
- RadAway (x3)
- Bobby Pin
- Dirty Water (M)
- Stimpak (x3)
- Beer (x2)
- Whiskey (M)
- Jet
- uck and Cover
- Mirelurk Meat (M)
- Radroach Meat (M)
- Mentats
- Shotgun Shells (M)
- Buffout
- Dandy Boy Apples (x3)
- Vodka (M)
- Med-X (x2)
- Rad-X
- Nuka-Cola (M)
- 5mm Rounds (M)
- 5.56mm Rounds (M)
- .32 Pistol (x2)
- .32mm Rounds (M)
- InstaMash (x4)
- Better Days
- 10mm Pistol
- Fission Battery (x3)
- Assault Rifle
- Electron Charge Pack (M)
- Laser Rifle
- Microfusion Cell (M)
- Energy Cell (M)
- Railway Spikes (x6)
- Bloodpak
- Purified Water
- Chinese Pistol
Part 1[edit]
Getting to Rivet City isn't easy. If you've managed to find this place already on your own, by rampant exploration, then good for you. If that's your situation, all you have to do is teleport there to get to the next leg of this mission (you'll also want to skip several paragraphs down to where you need to be). If that's not you, however, then you're going to want to instantly teleport to an area on the east side of the Potomac River; preferably a place known as the Tepid Sewers (if you've done the Wasteland Survival Guide quest for Moira Brown back at Megaton, this place should be on your map -- it's right next to the Anchorage War Memorial). From here, you'll want to head south alongside the river, which will ultimately bring you to Rivet Town. Not before you run into a whole lot of other crap first, though.
We're assuming you teleported to the Tepid Sewers/Anchorage War Memorial area. Go south. The first thing you'll likely run into is a small Raider outpost. Kill the weak Raiders, raid their gear (pardon the pun), and then grab the ridiculous amount of stuff they've been hording in their setup. Basically every kind of medicine (from Stimpaks and Jet to Psycho and Buffout) can be found here, as well as plenty of liquor, especially Whiskey. Grab everything you can here and then proceed southward until you reach an area called Dukov's Place. This will be added to your map; head back to Megaton instantly at this point to sell everything you grabbed from the Raider outpost. Rest up, and then return to Dukov's Place instantly to proceed.
Proceeding southward, you'll shortly come to a bridge with a scavenger hiding underneath. You can trade with this person, but we opted to kill her, take all of her goods and sell them back at Megaton before teleporting back to Dukov's Place and continuing. You can handle that how you want, however. Things will be relatively quiet from here until you reach a mostly-destroyed building with a few Super Mutants on it. You'll also run into lesser enemies known as Centaurs (you've likely fought these creatures before). You can kill what you want, or you can just run along, killing anyone that follows you. Of course, it's the blatantly-obvious Jefferson Memorial ahead that's a good indicator as to whether you're headed in the right direction or not.
The Jefferson Memorial, the large dome that you should see on your left as you proceed southward, is a converted building. That is to say, something is very clearly going on within, but for now, we're not too worried about that. What we are worried about is taking out the few Super Mutants running around the place causing a panic. Thankfully, all but one or two should be scantly equipped with Nailboards, so killing them should be an exercise in ease at this point in the game. Comb their bodies for anything interesting, but don't proceed southward from here. Rather, you'll want to walk along the metal catwalks around the far end of the memorial (more Mutants may be waiting for you, so be ready), towards the large aircraft carrier ahead. That's right -- this is Rivet City, the settlement Three Dog told you about.
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If you wanna see some bona fide coolness, check out the back end of the huge aircraft carrier to see some of the aircraft that fought in the war prior to nuclear devastation. But ultimately, you need to take the land route towards the front end of the ship, where a RIVET TOWN sign can easily be seen. You're here. Get ready for the next leg of our mission!
Accessing Rivet City isn't easy (well, it's easy, but not immediate or instantaneous). Climb the metal catwalks and seek out an intercom box near the disheveled man asking for water. You'll speak to Rivet City's security captain, a guy named Harkness. He'll extend the bridge towards the ship out to you but then ask why you're here. We told him we're here to see Dr. Li, and that the reason is personal. This was good enough for him, but it's likely there are other permutations to this conversation that will get you into Rivet City. Pick his brain about what Rivet City offers (you can also ask the nearby security guard some of the same questions), and then walk down the rest of the bridge towards the two doors into the ship.
Before going to see Dr. Li, why not check out the city's shopping area? You can buy lots of goods here (the selection amongst the several shops here is far greater, overall, than Moira Brown's scant collection of goods back in Megaton), and you can also get some information. It's best not to mettle in the affairs of the people here mid-mission (you'll notice that you can do that), but talk to everyone and see what they offer. Be sure to visit Flak at Flak and Shrapnel's, Angela and her father at Gary's Galley, Cindy at a Quick Fix, and Bannon at Potomac Attire. Between these four stores and their owners, you'll get plenty of information and have the option to buy a whole slew of goods, if you so desire. Oh, and a word to the wise -- keep your hands to yourself. Even if you're playing as an evil character or are desperate for goods, you don't want to steal anything here. You have no idea what you're getting yourself into if you do.
There's more to see if you head back to the ship's entrance and access the staircase via the door we earlier ignored. At the bottom of the staircase, you can find the Muddy Rudder, a bar run by a stern woman named Belle Bonny. Speak to her and any of her patrons. Then, access the main living quarters (called the Midship Deck) from the staircase to meet more people, including a security guard, some random passerbys, and even Cindy's drug-fiending husband. All have a story to tell, but again, try not to get too involved with their mini-side quests for the time being. It will complicate things, and you can always come back later and take care of business.
There is one side quest you might want to accept, however, just because it's such a darn interesting one. In the Midship Deck, you'll find a lot of locked doors (and you won't want to pick them open -- trust us). One door will be open, though, and it will simply say "door". On the other side of the door is a sort of makeshift museum of American history. Its proprietor, an elderly man named Abraham Washington, has an interesting request. He wants you to grab the Declaration of Independence for him from the ruins of the National Archives. But the best part is the pseudo-history he tells you about the document. Two-hundred years without knowledge really hurts, apparently. When you're done speaking with him, head back to the Midship Deck and seek out one of the two entrances to the science lab. We're finally going to pay Dr. Li a visit.
Part 3[edit]
The science lab isn't exactly high-tech, but what is in the Capital Wasteland? Before speaking with Dr. Li, consider speaking with some of her co-workers roaming around the lab. The mysterious Dr. Zimmer will offer you a quest if you want to take it, but we recommend against taking it for the time being. Even if you're tempted to mess with Zimmer, resist. His mercenary friend, who acts as his bodyguard, makes it pretty clear what he's going to do to you if you try anything funny. Oh, and you can take a look at those fresh (and very real) vegetables on the table, but don't take them! If you do, you'll be in for a bit of a hurting.
When you're all set, speak with Dr. Li to get the lowdown on your father. It appears that he worked with your mom and Dr. Li on something called Project Purity, an attempt to purify large water sources for the betterment (and restructuring) of humanity. But when your character was born and your mother died, your father took off to take care of you and the project all but failed. A frustrating endeavor, Project Purity was abandoned at the lab created for it at, you guessed it, the Jefferson Memorial. Remember where that is? We passed it when we came to Rivet City earlier. You fought a bunch of Super Mutants around it and had to walk around a metallic catwalk surrounding it to reach Rivet City. So, it should be on your map and thus you can instantly teleport yourself there as soon as you're ready to do so.
How to enter the Jefferson Memorial may not be completely obvious, but it's right in front of where you're transported from. Head forward through the door into the gift shop. This will lead to a long, barely-lit corridor stretching forward. Upon your entrance, you'll almost immediately be attacked by a Centaur. Kill this basic foe and go to the four-way intersection ahead. To your left is a dead end, behind you is the way you came, and ahead of you is an area we can't yet do anything in. So, you'll want to head right into the adjoining room.
Before you run into the room, you'll likely be intrigued by the gun noises you hear. This is from the Mark I Turret pointing inward, shooting at either a Centaur, a Super Mutant, or perhaps even both. Even though this gun is helping you out, you'll still want to destroy it from behind (for the experience, of course) before heading into the room and taking out whichever enemies it might have been shooting at. After scouring those bodies, begin to take a look around. With your back facing the way in which you entered the room, you can find a bathroom to your right, though there's nothing interesting within it. On the left, however, you can find plenty of goods. A thorough search will reveal a lot of incidental items (like Plates and Cups), but you should also be able to find some InstaMash, Pork N Beans, Vodka and other foodstuffs, as well as plenty of varied ammunition, from 10mm Rounds to .32mm Rounds and more.
Approach the next room ahead (grabbing the Vodka en route) and take out any other Centaurs or Super Mutants waiting for you. Before proceeding, we should explore the entirety of the square-shaped corridor surrounding this area, ignoring all doors for now. When you explore (going left or right, it matters not), expect to fight at least one Super Mutant, but more likely two. Search both of their bodies, as well as the desks, tables and filing cabinets you come across. Most of the items you find are incidental, but you should be able to find some Nuka-Cola from a barely-functioning drink machine, some valuable Hot Plates to sell off later, and even a Pack of Cigarettes. Remember, as always, to be judicious in which items you do and don't add to your inventory, since encumbrance is always a threat. And you won't want to go through your inventory to figure out which goods you should and shouldn't abandon if you're slowed to a crawl.
The next place we'll want to explore is the basement of the memorial, and for no other reason than to grab a lot of valuable goods to add to your inventory and to sell later. It goes without saying that if you have a lot of valuables and are carrying too much, leave the memorial, teleport back to Rivet City or Megaton to unload your goods, and then come back. Hopefully, however, that won't be a problem, so you can kill multiple birds with one single stone. Another great advantage to checking out the basement here is that you can kill a good half-dozen Super Mutants and Super Mutant Brutes, which will allow you to rack up some ever-valuable experience. But remember! It's the goods we're after.
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We won't give you directions on how to navigate this area, because it's dark, dank and a little bit confusing, and that will just complicate the issue even more. It's hard to get completely lost (generally, stairs leading up will indicate that you're heading back towards the memorial, while you'll be heading deeper into the basement by going down stairs). Goods to grab are many -- valuable medical equipment like Forceps, Tweezers and Empty Syringes should be grabbed. Foodstuffs like InstaMash and Dandy Boy Apples can be found. And plenty of weapons and ammunition, from 10mm Rounds and .32 Caliber Rounds to 5.56mm Rounds can also be found. But it's the Project Purity Project Journals you find strewn about (in entries) that will be of the utmost interest to you. You don't have to grab these, but they will shed plenty of light on what went on with Project Purity, and what went wrong.
You're probably swamped with goods now (and experience, too!), which is a good thing, of course. Head back up and leave the basement, and re-traverse the square-shaped corridor, looking for a door that leads to the memorial's rotunda. Have your gun drawn, because there are at least two Super Mutants, one of them a Brute, that will be waiting for you on the circular rotunda. Down both of these enemies, searching their bodies for any goods they may have (you should have a plethora of Frag Grenades at this point, just from searching their bodies). Then, seek out a staircase leading to the office above.
The office above, surprisingly well-lit and in good order, will have more entries from the Project Purity Project Journals, similar to the ones we found down in the memorial's basement. However, the key entry, Entry 10, can be found up here. Once you find it, head into your inventory via Pip-Boy and give the entry a listen to find out where your dad has gone to. It appears he's gone to a place similar to Vault 101, called Vault 112. Vault 112 is located far to the west of Megaton, so once you are ready, head outside and teleport instantaneously to Megaton. It's time to head overland to Vault 112.
Vault 112 is on your map, and it's due west of Megaton, so it's going to be a lengthy and laborious overland route that you'll be forced to take to get there (unless, of course, you have a place closer to it to teleport from, which you probably don't at this point in the game). There's some good news and bad news about this adventure. The good news is that, while you'll run into plenty of enemies on your westward journey, most of them won't be difficult for you to kill at all. The bad news? There's a new enemy you'll encounter at least once en route to Vault 112, and it's a variety you've yet encountered. And yes, it's a powerful enemy, indeed!
Expect to encounter plenty of Mole Rats, Bloatflies, and Radscorpions as you go. Radscorpions might give you a minor problem, but Mole Rats and Bloatflies are amongst the weakest foes in the game, so kill them for easy (yet scant) experience. For some reason, there might also be Protectrons roaming around the Wasteland, so lay into them when you encounter them as well (and search their metallic bodies for laser ammunition once slain). If you happen to run into a Super Mutant, you're lucky, because their easy experience is welcome right now. Running into one of them is guaranteed, though -- they don't often roam on the western edge of the Wasteland.
Now, we'll tell you a bit about the daunting new enemy you're likely to run into. These foes are called Mr. Gutsy, and from what we can tell, these robots are American Army leftovers that still manage to function and roam the Wasteland looking for communist enemies that don't seem to exist anymore. So, when you run into them, they'll turn their red ire on you instead. Mr. Gutsy isn't an agile floating robot, but he packs a whallop, with a flamethrower and laser gun able to easily devastate unsuspecting victims. They can also take an intense amount of damage before they are felled, but luckily the experience points make it all worth it. Also making it worth it are the items the two we encountered were guarding. The first one you'll likely encounter near a downed army truck contains some Cigarettes, as well as two Fission Batteries, and plenty of 5.56mm Rounds.
Part 5[edit]
Proceeding westward from there, the environment will continue to be barren. You may encounter an abandoned settlement or small village long-since destroyed by the nuclear holocaust now two-hundred years in the past, and you may even encounter a train derailed by the explosions that ravaged the nation's capital. And you'll encounter more enemies, no doubt, but nothing you're not prepared for. This is a long voyage -- there's no doubt -- but perseverance will serve you well, for Vault 112 could be right over the next hill.
When you spot a red rocket-like object in the distance, you're on the right track, because Vault 112's entrance is enshrined in that abandoned car garage. Before heading right towards it, however, be certain you explore another abandoned US Army truck adjacent to it. Yes -- Mr. Gutsy will be guarding it -- but the payout for killing him apart from his experience will make this exercise worth it. He's guarding a slew of goods, including a Laser Rifle, plenty of Microfusion Cells and Electron Charge Packs, as well as a truck holding more ammunition in the form of 5.56mm Rounds, 10mm Rounds and Shotgun Shells. All-in-all, a great payout.
Seek out a door into the garage when you're ready, and equip a melee weapon (we equipped our trusty Chinese Officer's Sword). You'll want to do this in order to save precious ammunition as you deal with the weak Radroaches and Mole Rats within the garage itself. Scour the garage for more items if you want. There are some valuable goods, including a Conductor, Wonderglue, Turpentine, and more, including medical items like Purified Water and a Stimpak. But it's the electrical switch on the wall near the back shelf on the left that you'll want to hit. This will cause a staircase to show up, which leads down towards the Vault.
There are no enemies to be seen from here on out, but you can still do a little bit of exploration. Head down the stairs and follow the linear corridor until you see a vault door that's eerily familiar to the Vault 101 door you came from. This door, however, leads, to the strange Vault 112. When you enter, continue to follow the linear pathways until you run into a robotic friend named Robobrain, who will hand you a Vault 112 Outfit and ask you to get into it. Follow his instructions, having only that outfit equipped, and nothing else.
While you can explore the Vault if you so desire, the ultimate goal of this mission (which will bring it to an end) is to reach the circular room at the center of the vault, where machines called Tranquility Loungers are located. There's a couple of empty ones down there, and one of them can be activated, accessed and sat in. Once you do, get ready for a virtual reality ride to last a lifetime. A fake lifetime, anyway.