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PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE RELATED GSN TERMS OF SERVICE LOCATED AT http://www.gsn.com/corporate/terms.html BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE OR ANY GSN FORUM.
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") applies to your use of all the online and mobile websites (each, a "Website") operated by Game Show Network, LLC or one of its affiliates or subsidiaries (collectively referred to herein, solely for ease of reference, as "GSN"), including but not limited to the websites located at www.gsn.com, www.worldwinner.com, www.gsntv.com, www.mesmo.tv, https://apps.facebook.com/mesmogames, www.facebook.com/GamesbyGSN) (each, an "Application") operated by GSN, and/or the GSN "Community Features" (as defined herein) (unless a different policy is provided on a particular Website , Application, or Community Feature in which case such different policy shall control). The Website, the Applications and the Community Features are collectively referred to herein as the "Services". Interactive games that are made available on the Services or are accessible from the Services are operated by GSN Games, Inc., ("GSN Games"), formerly known as Worldwinner.com, Inc. All references in this Privacy Policy to "GSN" in connection with the interactive games that are made available on or are accessible from the Services will be deemed to extend to and include GSN Games. Please note, however, that if you elect to participate in any cash competitions or interactive games offered on or through the Services, you may be re-directed to www.worldwinner.com and/or gsn.worldwinner.com (collectively, the "GSN Games Sites"), and your activity on the GSN Games Sites will be governed by the terms and policies that reside on the GSN Games Sites. This Privacy Policy discloses what type of information is collected on or through the Services, the methods used to collect it, how GSN utilizes the information and the choices you have about the way your information is collected and used. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Your use of the Services indicates that you have read, accepted and unconditionally agreed to the GSN privacy practices, as outlined in this Privacy Policy and any other applicable terms. The Terms of Service http://www.gsn.com/corporate/terms.html for the Services are incorporated herein by this reference. This Privacy Policy expressly covers the interactions you have with GSN as set forth herein but does not cover any interaction you may have with GSN for example by telephone, postal mail, or other offline communications.
You can use aspects of the Services at any time without providing any personally identifiable information ("PII") about yourself. We may ask you to provide us with demographic information, information regarding your interests or other "PII". Providing us with PII about yourself is voluntary, and you can always choose not to provide certain PII, but then you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in some of the Website's or Application's features (e.g., to play interactive games, access GSN Forums, or use other services as described in the Terms of Service). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, PII is personal information about an individual user, such as a first and last name, phone number or email address or other individually identifiable information within the meaning of the Federal Trade Commission's Online Privacy Protection Rule found at 16 CFR 312.2 and the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act ("COPPA").
GSN strives to provide our visitors, users and/or players with information relevant to their particular desires, needs and/or interests. The information we gather helps us to better serve this purpose. GSN actively and passively gathers, analyzes and/or stores PII and other information generally by way of three different sources: (1) the PII voluntarily submitted by visitors when using or registering to use or receive our services or offers; (2) the PII visitors voluntarily provide when participating in any contests, sweepstakes and/or other promotions; and (3) by tracking and analyzing online and mobile data and activity through mechanisms that identify users, user preferences, site usage, browser types, IP addresses, and other data. Our collection and use of information is explained in greater detail over the next several sections of this Privacy Policy.
GSN Account Information:
In order to use certain Services, you may be required to register and create an account with GSN ("GSN Account"). There is no cost to create a GSN Account but you will be asked to choose a member name (please do not use your real name or the real name of another person) and password, and to provide certain PII, such as your real name, age, address, telephone number, occupation and e-mail address. We also urge you to keep your password confidential and refrain from sharing it with others. Please note that your member name will be available to the Internet general public while you participate in certain GSN Forums such as message boards or chat rooms. Once you have created a GSN Account, we may create an additional account for you on one or all of our affiliate websites, including but not limited to www.worldwinner.com, www.mesmo.tv, www.GSNTV.com, www.facebook.com/GamesbyGSN, or https://apps.facebook.com/mesmogames. By registering for a GSN Account, you unconditionally consent and agree to the creation of these additional accounts. You can monitor or terminate any of these additional accounts by visiting the applicable affiliate website. If you do provide GSN with PII, we will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect this information as more fully set forth in this Privacy Policy.
The Services may contain an online store from which you can purchase certain products. We will be required to collect PII such as name, contact information, shipping and billing addresses, and a credit card number in order to process your order. We may also keep records of your transactions with us. We may use the information you provide to us in order to communicate with you about products purchased, related customer support and to send you information about other products or services we believe may be of interest to you.
As part of the registration process to create a GSN Account or to participate in Special Promotions, you may be asked to provide certain information that does not personally identify you. For example, you may be asked to provide information concerning your television viewing habits, music or other entertainment preferences, purchasing habits, and the like. We may also collect information about your use of the Application, including but not limited to how long you use the Application or the device you use to connect to the Application. GSN requests this information in order to enhance your experience by understanding you better and to also make you aware of new services, programs or offers which may be of interest to you.
Usage Information:
In addition, when your computer or mobile device contacts our web servers (for example, when you visit the Website or view an HTML e-mail), our web servers automatically collect usage information. Such usage information includes information about how our visitors use and navigate our Services. For example, GSN might collect information concerning the type of Internet browser or computer operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your "click path" through the Website, the website or advertisement from which you linked to the Website, and/or the website that you go to when leaving the Website. In order to do this, GSN may use several technologies and perform system checks when a user visits the Website. Examples of such technologies are cookies (as described in more detail below), transparent gifs, frames, server log analysis, and other technologies as they are developed. All technologies implemented on the Services are used to enhance the user experience.
Browser Cookies: The Services set browser "cookies" on your computer or other device. Cookies are a website's way of remembering who you are. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer's hard drive or stored temporarily in your computer's memory. There are two kinds of cookies: those that are "session" oriented and those that are "persistent". Session cookies are no longer active once you close your browser. Persistent cookies retain information for later use tomorrow, next week, next month, or whenever they are set to expire. We use cookies to help us to identify account holders and to optimize their experience on our Services. Also, we will use cookies to monitor and maintain information about your use of the Services. In addition, we use third party advertising companies (each, a "Third Party Advertiser") to market, sell, and display advertisements that you may see when you visit our Services. More information can be found about this practice below. These Third Party Advertisers may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to the Services in connection with such marketing, sales, and advertising activities, including with respect to goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of such advertising activities, we may, on their behalf, or the Third Party Advertiser itself may place or recognize a unique 'cookie' on your computer or mobile device. Most web browsers accept cookies automatically. You can delete cookies manually or set your browser to automatically delete cookies on a pre-determined schedule. For example, in the Internet Explorer menu bar, select: Tools→Internet Options→Browsing History→Delete to view manual and automatic options. If you decline to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features of the Services.
Flash Cookies: Our Services enable the use of the Adobe Flash Player. Adobe's Flash Player is used by many websites that offer video and other interactive content. By default, your use of the Adobe Flash Player generates "flash cookies" (also known as "persistent identification elements" or "local shared objects"). The Adobe Flash Player (and similar applications) use flash cookies to remember user settings, preferences and usage similar to the browser cookies referenced above, but flash cookies can store more information than browser cookies and are managed through a different interface than the one provided by your web browser. You can control the degree to which you accept flash cookies by accessing your Adobe Flash Player management tools directly through the settings manager for Adobe Flash, located at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html. If you do not allow flash cookies to take any disc space on your computer, you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features of the Services. Users with a computer running the Windows operating system can view flash cookie files in this folder: \Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player. Users with a computer running the Apple operating system can view flash cookie files in this folder: /users/[username]/Library/Preferences/macromedia/Flash Player. Flash cookies, or LSO files are stored typically with an ".SOL" extension.
The Adobe Flash Player is not the only technology being used in the ever-shifting online and mobile content environment. HTML5 is an increasingly popular web standard used for presenting content, especially content delivered to mobile devices. HTML is the mark-up language used for the World Wide Web. Almost all web pages you visit on the internet are based around HTML code. HTML5 is simply the fifth and latest iteration of this mark-up language that allows for more interactive web pages. One of the real benefits of HTML5 is its potential to standardize the highly fragmented rich-media universe. Some HTML5 code may allow your response to advertising and other activities to be monitored across websites and such information to be stored on your computer or mobile device. Technology solutions that allow users to opt-out of or block this sort of tracking are being developed through browser add-ons and other tools.
Web Beacons: Our web pages or e-mail messages may contain a small graphic image called a web beacon, which is sometimes also called a "clear gif", that allows us to monitor and collect certain limited information about our users, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small or invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. We may use web beacons to count visitors to our web pages or to monitor how our users navigate our Services, and we may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many of the messages we sent were actually opened or acted upon. We use web beacons to compile aggregate statistics about our Services and our marketing campaigns.
IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer or network when you are linked to the Internet. When you request pages from our Services, our servers log your IP address. We may use IP addresses for a number of purposes, such as system administration, to report aggregate information to our business partners or to audit the use of the Services. We may associate your IP address with the PII you provide.
Except as specifically outlined in this Privacy Policy, we do not share your PII with non-affiliated third parties without your permission. We may, however, share your PII with our owners and other related entities, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, DirecTV, and their parents, subsidiaries, or affiliated companies, in order to provide portions of the Services (e.g., to provide fulfillment for prizes won in a GSN sweepstakes or contest), or to provide other support for a GSN promotion. Please refer to the individual privacy policies of our related entities for details concerning how they handle your PII and non-personal information.
We may, however, provide information to select outside companies when we believe their products or services may be of interest to you. If you provide your PII directly to a third party, your direct interactions with that third party will be subject to the third party's privacy policy and not this Privacy Policy. Therefore, if you later decide that you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party directly. In addition, GSN may share your PII or other information with third parties under the following circumstances:
Third parties providing services on our behalf: We may engage third parties to perform services in connection with the operation of our business. Examples of these services include: (a) product and/or experience customization, (b) distribution of marketing and promotional material, (c) website evaluation, (d) data collection, storage, management, analysis and, where applicable, cleansing, and (e) any other services designed to assist us in maximizing our business potential. These third parties may have access to the Services' user information, including PII, to the extent it is needed to perform their duties and functions.
Company Security: We may release information about our users, including PII, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Services and applicable laws. We may also disclose such user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of GSN, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers or others.
Aggregate Information: We may disclose non-identifying, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes, including describing our services to prospective partners and other third parties. Examples of such non-personal information include the number of users who visited the Website during a specific time period or redeemed a prize through the Services.
Promotions: We may offer promotional content, such as a contest, sweepstakes or promotion in connection with our Services. Such promotions may be sponsored by or co-branded with a third party, who may obtain the PII that you submit. If you provide information to such third parties, we cannot control those third parties' use of your information. If you do not want your information to be collected by or shared with a third party, do not participate in these events. Also, by entering a promotion, we may require you to consent to the use of your PII or other information, such as name, voice or likeness, in advertising, promotional and marketing materials. In some instances, we may have an arrangement with a promotional partner or retailer, whereby they share with us customer information collected on their website. In the event that we receive such data and combine it with our customer records, the combined information will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Otherwise, all such information is subject to the privacy policy under which it was collected.
Third Party Offers: From time to time, we are approached by third party companies and organizations that provide game-related special offers or other offers that we believe may be of interest to you. To extend these offers to you, we may use your GSN account information to send out promotional mailings to you on their behalf. If you select to sign up for the third party offer, we will share your GSN account information with the third party offer provider. We see this as a value-added service helping you find useful products or services.
Corporate change: We reserve the right to disclose, share and/or otherwise transfer user information, including without limitation PII, in connection with a corporate merger, acquisition, consolidation, the sale of a portion of our business or the sale of substantially all of GSN's assets, or other fundamental corporate change, whatever form it may take. You will be notified via e-mail or prominent notice on our Website prior to a change of ownership or control of your PII, if your PII will be used contrary to this policy. For clarification and the removal of doubt, GSN specifically reserves the right to transfer or share a copy of PII collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy from the Services, off-line or otherwise, to the buyer of that portion of its business relating to that information.
Ad Serving Technology: The Services may employ proprietary or third party ad serving technologies that use cookies, clear GIFs, web beacons, tracking pixels or other technologies to collect information as a result of ad serving through the Services. GSN or third parties operating the ad serving technology (each, a "Third Party Ad Server") may use demographic and location information, as well as information logged from your hardware or device to ensure that appropriate advertising is presented within the Services and to calculate or control the number of unique and repeat views of a given ad, and/or deliver ads that relate to your interests and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. We or Third Party Ad Servers may collect data for this purpose, including your IP address (including for purposes of determining your approximate geographic location), device ID, information about your software, applications and hardware, machine or device make and model, advertisement(s) served, in game location, length of time an advertisement was visible, other Internet and website usage information, web pages and mobile Internet sites which have been viewed by you (as well as date and time), domain type, size of the advertisement, advertisement response (if any), and angle of view. Note that if you click on an ad that appears on the Services, you acknowledge and agree as a result of how that technology works that your name or other identifying characteristics may be revealed to the advertiser (or the applicable Third Party Ad Server) through referrer headers (the URL transmitted by publishers when users click on ads).
You recognize and agree that the Third Party Ad Servers who deliver ads for GSN may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other services or products. These companies collect and use information under their own privacy policies. These ad serving technologies may be integrated into the Services.
In addition, GSN uses pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These GIF files are provided by our ad management partners (each, a "Management Partner"). These files enable our Management Partners to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser. The cookie was placed by us, or by another advertiser who works with the applicable Management Partner. The Management Partner may set and access its own cookies on your Web browser in order to serve ads it believes may be of interest to you based on the profile information you provided to us at registration (e.g., demographic information) as well as information collected about you by the applicable Management Partner elsewhere on the Web. Management Partners may use information about you gathered from the Services (including your demographic information provided to us upon registration as well as your browsing behavior on the Website) to serve third party ads to you elsewhere on the Internet. For more information about how cookies work, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative's homepage.
Advertising GSN Products & Services: After you visit or use the Services, our advertising partners may deliver GSN ads to your Web browser when you are visiting other sites on the Internet. These ads are delivered based on cookies that are set by us or by our third party advertising network partners when you visit or use the Services, and that are recognized by these companies when you visit other sites. Please see the section above on cookies to learn more about setting your Web browser to block cookies.
You have choices about the collection of information by third parties on our Web Sites:
1. If you would like more information about advertisers' use of cookies, and about your option not to accept these cookies, please click here and click here.
2. If you would like to opt-out of having interest-based information collected during your visits to this or other sites, click here or click here.
3. To opt-out of GSN Games Audience Extension targeting you need to specifically opt-out of DataPoint Media by clicking here or here.
These Services are not aimed at nor intended for children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use the Services, and if you are over the age of 13 but under the age of 18, you should use the Services only with the and permission and/or supervision of a parent or legal guardian. Our Services do not accept registration from children under the age of 13. No PII is purposefully or knowingly collected from children under the age of 13 by GSN. Parents are hereby put on notice that as a result of the foregoing, GSN does not provide a mechanism to obtain parental consent.
If you are a parent or guardian who has discovered that your child has submitted his or her PII to GSN, GSN will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete the information from its database, at your request. To request the deletion of your child's information, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and be sure to include in your message the same member name and password that your child submitted. Your use of the Services indicates that you hereby represent and warrant that all information you provide, including but not limited to age, shall be truthful and correct.
If you give GSN sensitive information (e.g., credit card numbers), GSN will take all commercially reasonable steps to protect such information by establishing a secure connection with your Web browser. GSN employs a security technology known as a secure-socket-layer ("SSL"), an industry standard security protocol for encrypting sensitive information provided to us by a third party, to protect the transmission of payment information to the Services. Unless otherwise specified herein or on the Services, credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for marketing or any other purposes.
While GSN takes precautions against possible breaches in its databases, no website, internet transmission, computer system or connection is completely secure. Consequently, GSN cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We cannot and do not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to GSN and you do so at your own risk.
GSN urges you to keep your PII safe by memorizing your password or keeping it in a safe place, separate from your account information, as sharing your password with others may lead to unauthorized access to your information.
Please review our restrictions on use and guidelines for user forums in our Terms of Service. All postings, whether in a chat room, on message boards or other method of communication within the Forums will generally be available to, and freely accessible by, other users of the GSN Forums as well as the Internet general public. Therefore, users should not expect that any information they post will be kept private or confidential and are encouraged to exercise discretion when using the GSN Forums. Additionally, your member name will always be included in conjunction with your postings in the GSN Forums. In addition, certain message boards (and similar user forums) may display IP addresses and possibly PII along with the message poster's name and message. GSN assumes no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information automatically included when users use the GSN Forums as described above, or any information users may disclose in user forums or other public areas, if any, of the Services. GSN is not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through the Forums
The Services may contain links to, or advertisements concerning, other websites. Other websites may also reference, advertise, or link to GSN. GSN is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites and expressly disclaims all liability associated with your use of, and the content on, such other websites and advertisements. You should check the applicable privacy policy of any website you may click through to.
GSN may offer you the possibility to connect your accounts from third party social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter (each, a "Social Networking Site"), with the Services by an application programming interface (API) or other software. By allowing GSN to connect with your accounts on such Social Networking Sites, you consent to GSN's accessing the information in those accounts, which information may include PII. You likewise consent to GSN's publishing on the Services any such information or actions you take on other such Social Networking Sites. Any information accessed or published from your account on a Social Networking Site on the Services is subject to GSN's Terms of Service. It is your choice whether to use any such Social Networking Site, and you understand that in some instances such Social Networking Sites may request to access and publish information about you or your friends that is included in your GSN Account.
The Services are operated in the United States. By providing any PII to the Services, all users, including, without limitation, users in the member states of the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States fully understand and unambiguously consent to this Privacy Policy. By using our Services, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent and agree to the collection, transfer, storage and processing of your information to and in the United States.
As part of your use of the Services, you are responsible for maintaining and updating, as applicable, your Registration Information with current and complete information. You may edit and delete portions of your GSN Account information or delete the GSN Account entirely. To do this, visit the first page after signing in to your account, and click on "MY GSN" to make changes or deletions. You can also write to us at:
Attn: Player Support
100 Summer Street, 11th Floor
Boston, MA, 02110
After receiving any requested changes to your information, we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that all of your PII stored in databases we actively use to operate the Services will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practical. However, we reserve the right to retain in our archival files any information we remove from or change in our active Services databases. We may retain such information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Service. In addition, it may not be technologically possible to remove every record of the information you have previously provided us, as a copy may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Therefore, you may continue to receive some offers after you send us a request not to use your information for specified marketing purposes. Please be aware that we will process your request promptly, but it may take some time to update our systems in the ordinary course of our business operations. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13, and you have discovered that your child created an account and would like to have it deleted, please e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com with your child's member name and password.
If you want to opt out of having your PII shared with third parties for marketing purposes, you must consistently opt-out at our Services where you register and whenever you provide PII to us. Please bear in mind that this opt-out choice for "third parties" will not apply to GSN, GSN licensees and/or co-branding participants, as set forth below. Please also keep in mind that any opt-out choices you make will not apply in situations where (a) you either have made, simultaneously make, or later make a specific request for information from us, or (b) GSN uses your PII for either operational purposes (e.g., to complete transactions requested by you, or to send you administrative communications either about your account with us or about features of our Services, including any future changes to this Privacy Policy, or any other policy or terms that affect you and your use of our Services) or fulfillment purposes (e.g., sharing with companies that facilitate communications and transactions with you).
If you do not exercise your opt-out choices upon registration or otherwise at the time the PII is provided, it may take some time to process your opt-out choices. Our systems require time to update, and promotional mailings using PII shared before your opt-out may already be in process. Thus, your PII might continue to be shared with third parties for promotional purposes for some time after you make your request, For similar reasons, if your PII is shared with a third party, GSN largely or completely loses control over how that information is used. Thus, even after you have opted out of allowing us to share your PII, you might continue to receive promotional materials from third parties unless and until you duly register your opt-out request with each third party in question.
You should be aware that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases without some residual data because of backups and other reasons.
GSN is dedicated to protecting your PII and welcomes comments and questions on this Privacy Policy. You may e-mail us at the following address:
Notice to California Residents/Your California Privacy Rights
California residents are entitled once a year to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of PII to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2012 will receive information about 2011 sharing activities). As set forth in this Privacy Policy, we comply with this law by offering our visitors the ability to tell us not to share your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, consistently exercise your opt-out choice whenever you provide PII to us or send us a message using the email set forth above. You must include the Services as the subject line, and your full name, e-mail address, and postal address in your message.
Our Services do not recognize browser "Do Not Track" signals, but several of our Third Party Ad Servers and Management Partners enable you, in whole or in part, to opt out of the behavioral advertising activities described in Paragraph 3 of this Privacy Policy. To learn more about how to opt out of the behavioral advertising conducted by these providers you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/. We also provide you with additional tools you can use to opt out of marketing from us. You can learn more about this in Paragraph 10 of this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, update, add to, discontinue, remove or otherwise change any portion of this Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "last updated" date located at the top of this Privacy Policy. For changes to this Privacy Policy that we consider to be material, we will let you know by displaying a notice when you first use the Services after such changes have been made. We may also, at our discretion, provide notification of changes by other means. If you provide information to us or access or use the Services in any way after this Privacy Policy has been changed, you will be deemed to have unconditionally consented and agreed to such changes. The most current version of this Privacy Policy will be available on the Website and the Application and will supersede all previous versions of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy, including all revisions and amendments thereto, is governed by the internal laws of the United States, the State of California, without regard to its conflict or choice of law principles which would require application of the laws of another jurisdiction.
By using the Services in any way, you unconditionally consent and agree that: (1) any claim, dispute, or controversy (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) you may have against the officers, directors and employees of GSN and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates (all such individuals and entities collectively referred to herein as the "Company Entities") arising out of, relating to, or connected in any way with the Services or the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by JAMS and conducted before a sole arbitrator in accordance with the rules of JAMS; (2) this arbitration agreement is made pursuant to a transaction involving interstate commerce, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16; (3) the arbitration shall be held in Los Angeles, California; (4) the arbitrator's decision shall be controlled by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and any of the other agreements referenced herein that the applicable user may have entered into in connection with the Services; (5) the arbitrator shall apply California law consistent with the FAA and applicable statutes of limitations, and shall honor claims of privilege recognized at law; (6) there shall be no authority for any claims to be arbitrated on a class or representative basis, arbitration can decide only your and/or the applicable Company Entity's individual claims; the arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated; (7) the arbitrator shall not have the power to award punitive damages against you or any Company Entity; (8) in the event that the administrative fees and deposits that must be paid to initiate arbitration against any Company Entity exceed $125 USD, and you are unable (or not required under the rules of JAMS) to pay any fees and deposits that exceed this amount, Company agrees to pay them and/or forward them on your behalf, subject to ultimate allocation by the arbitrator. In addition, if you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, Company will pay as much of your filing and hearing fees in connection with the arbitration as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive; and (9) with the exception of subpart (6) above, if any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, or otherwise conflicts with the rules of JAMS, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein. If, however, subpart (6) is found to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, then the entirety of this Arbitration Provision shall be null and void, and neither you nor Company shall be entitled to arbitrate their dispute. For more information on JAMS and/or the rules of JAMS, visit their website at www.jamsadr.com.
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Last Saturday saw several Derby get-togethers up and down 30A, but unlike some other parties held during the year, the hosts seemed to want to keep these small and private.
One was held at a home in the Gulf Place community. At this gathering, the house was appropriately decorated with a variety of hats, horsy items, and red roses for the guests to watch the Run for the Roses on the big-screen TV. The ladies all wore hats and brought an hors d'oeuvre consisting of a food item that a horse eats or that someone at the Kentucky Derby would eat, which made it all the more fun. Kentucky Burgoo, dip formed into the shape of a horseshoe, and cheese arranged to look like a hat with a ribbon around it drew oohs and aahs. John Stasko, Lorre and Bob James, Kent and Peggy Lillie, Susie and Jake Jacobs, Tom and Michelle Fillingim, Keith and RoseAnn Knight, Mike and Carol Stovsky attended this one.
I hear another was held just down the road a bit and was attended by some of the 30A Posse, another in Seagrove, and another at a home on Sandestin.
Patti Robar and Carrie Nelle Moye of Blue Mountain Beach attended Carrie Nelle's grandnephew's wedding in Paducah, Ky., last Saturday. The wedding reception started with cocktails and viewing the televised Kentucky Derby with guests wearing their fascinators and holding mint juleps. What fun!
Dennis and Margie Dumler returned from his son's wedding in Atlanta Sunday night just in time to head to Pepitos for Cinco de Mayo. While in Atlanta the Dumlers stayed with part-time 30A resident Judy Foster. Rain forced the wedding ceremony indoors, but the venue at Chene' Rouge in Hiram was still fantastic, said Dennis. The Dumlers' Sandestin buddies, Jerome and Sandy D'Eramo and Judy Foster, joined them for the celebration, as did Dennis's cousin and her husband who drove in from Colorado. "It was great to be with friends, family, and to see my son so happy with his new, beautiful bride," said Dennis. "One of the really touching moments was his dance with Margie who never has been referred to as a stepmom. My late wife, Patsy, would have been so proud!"
While there, Jerome and Sandy visited with both their sons Adam (and wife Logan) as well as Tony, Erica and grandbaby Taylor, who just moved to the Atlanta area full time.
Congratulations to Murray Balkcom and Rebecca Sullivan, who said "I do" last Saturday in a garden ceremony on 30A.
This weekend, Dudley and Al Cook will host three of Dudley's college roommates and their spouses: Jane and Jimmy Walker from Byron, Ga; Sandra and Jim Smith from Union Springs, Ala.; and Joy Ray from Birmingham. Al said they intend to eat, drink, and play well for three days.
Debbi Morris, Charlie and Betty White, Gena and Ronnie Bolton, Shirley and Chuck Simpson, Wanda Duke, Jeanne Dailey, Demetrius Fuller and Michael Dobson, Dennis Lichorwic, Richard and Demetria McNeese, Heather Tate, and Shaye Smith are more folks who enjoyed the festive inaugural South Walton Beaches Wine Fest.
Joe and Lea Capers, Donna Burgess, and Myra Williams attended the Walton County Chamber's Celebrity Waiter Dinner last week.
I saw Donna at Home Depot last weekend buying plants to spruce up her new home.
Congratulations to Arlene Newsome, who won the People's Choice Award at last month's opening reception for the Cultural Arts Alliance's Top of the Class A+ Art Exhibit at Northwest Florida State College South Walton campus. Attendees chose her Tuscany painting as best in the exhibit.
Emerald Coast Middle School Golf team won their first (inaugural) golf tournament at Origins Golf Course against Seaside Middle School last week. Emerald Coast Middle School and Seaside are working hard to develop golf programs at each school and 2014 already looks promising for both. Congrats!
Sandestin resident, former F-15 pilot, and new skeet-shooting aficionado Mark Devlin broke 20 of 25 skeet last week � his personal best.
Columnist Ron Hart was featured on CNN again last week.
Holly Speight saw Anthony Weiner in New York City this week.
Jake and Susie Jacobs are babysitting grandchildren in Atlanta.
Patrick and Christi Ferry went to JazzFest.
Wish a "happy birthday" today to fellow Taureans Philip Spann, yoga lady Laurie Beck, song bird Kelsey Johnson, and the illustrious Redd Vizard.
Tomorrow to photographer extraordinaire Allison Yii.
Monday to Jim Radtke, music-man Donnie Sundal, architect Cary McWhorter, running-man Jim Reagan, and me!
Wednesday to Lois Berberich, and art gallery-owner Geana Wilkerson.
Thursday to Beverly Schmitt.
And Friday to Kyle Petit, restaurant-owner George Hartley, and Father Tom Guido.
I wish all mothers a very blessed Mother's Day on Sunday.
Deborah Wheeler is the arts and entertainment reporter for The Walton Sun. She may be reached at 654-8443, or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Her Party Line column appears weekly in The Sun. Contributions are accepted.

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While Jason Campbell was at the podium talking to the some of the assembled media Wednesday, Bruce Gradkowski said at his locker he was encouraged by his improvement and was hoping to throw well at practice Wednesday.
Campbell said his status as the Raiders backup despite back-to-back games with passer ratings of more than 120 has not been discussed.
Coach Tom Cable will provide the league-mandated update of injured players following practice although it's doubtful he'll have anything definitive about cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, tight end Zach Miller or Gradkowski until later of the week in preparation to face the Kansas City Chiefs.
Nothing official from the Raiders, but the word is tickets are moving briskly with the help of a 2-for-1 ticket offer, leaving open the possibility the 11-game blackout streak could end.
Tickets must be sold out 72 hours before kickoff, but the Raiders, if close, could ask for an extension Friday.
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Today's date, often thought of as lucky or spiritual, only comes around once a century. These three Match.com couples, amongst many others, have decided to tie the knot on this special day. Read their stories below.
"A Musical Match!" by Michelle and Daniel, Longwood, Florida
After about a month of communication and many missed meeting opportunities, somehow, someway, the first moment we had free was…12.31.10, YES, New Year's Eve!
Since then we've realized only the MOST optimistic people would ring in the New Year with a complete stranger! Thankfully, we both took that leap of faith.
Our wedding day, 11.11.11, is quite a significant number to us. We have been together since 1.1.11, and see all sorts of 1's floating around everywhere we go; addresses, phone numbers, chapters of a book, the time of day, etc…Dan even chose the date 7.11.11 to propose (not accidental!). The number 1 is a symbol of unity, purity, and positivity and is also a Heavenly number signifying God. Lightning literally struck during an outdoor kiss in January! No other lightning happened before or after that strike. All of these we take as signs from God that this is it, each of us has literally found, The One!
"We always smile and tell them Match.com!" by Holly and Amanda, Slidell, Louisiana
Holly and I met on match and everyday can't believe how lucky we are to have found each other. Honestly we never would have met if it wasn't for this site. We met in person a few weeks after meeting on match. We already knew each other from chatting and honestly it helped to break the ice when we finally met face to face. Its was amazing, and everything we knew we had been looking for. Your site honestly is the only place same sex individuals can meet and have a expectation of a relationship. We moved in together and haven't looked back. We have four dogs and have bought our own place together. I recently proposed in April and in true Holly fashion she started planning right away. We are going to be married 11.11.11 and now thanks to "Don't ask don't tell" being removed I will be in uniform at my wedding with no worries. I love having people ask how did you two meet. We always smile and look at each other and tell them match.com. The reaction is always the same. "Really?" We always recommend your site to anyone who is looking for a relationship with substance.
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We met online on January 9th and had our first date on January 11th. It seemed right from the start that we were meant to be together. We come from two different places (NJ and MS) but yet we have so much in common. We both met each other's families and everyone was so sweet and loving it just added to the perfect match we had! We got engaged in August while visiting his family in Mississippi and could not wait to set our wedding date! Since we met on 1.11.11 we decided to get married on 11.11.11!! Our families will be here with us to celebrate our ceremony and we could not be happier!! Who would have thought we'd both meet the love our lives on Match.com!!?? We are so happy with our new Harleys that we got, with our children and grandchildren and can't wait to be together!! Thanks Match!!


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Former state Sen. Larcenia Bullard was the rarest of politicians in the state Capitol: She seemed to make everyone happy and had no apparent enemies.
Bullard was the lady with the big bear hugs, the woman from Miami who made you feel special. She was funny. Often on purpose. Sometimes not.
And she'll be missed by many in the state Capitol and those she served from Miami to Key West.
"It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of Florida State Senator Larcenia Bullard," Aaron T. McKinney, legislative assistant to Bullard's son and successor, Dwight Bullard, wrote in a Saturday email to Senate staff.
"Please keep Senator Dwight Bullard and the Bullard Family in your prayers during their time of bereavement. Funeral arrangements will be announced once details are finalized."
Sen. Dwight Bullard and his father, former state Rep. Edward Bullard, couldn't be reached.
Larcenia Bullard had health issues in her final years in the Legislature, where she left in 2012 due to term limits.
"She lived to see her son take her place in the Florida Senate. That meant so much to her. It was special," said Sen. Jack Latvala. The St. Petersburg Republican carried one of Bullard's bills, designating Key West's Western Union schooner as the state's flagship, when she was ill in 2011.
"Larcenia Bullard was a personality -- always happy, a joyful person, someone who gave everybody a great big bear hug. It didn't matter who you were," said Oscar Braynon, a fellow Democrat from Miami Gardens.
"When she came on the Senate floor and hugged everybody, she still made you feel so special, like she was there for you."
Bullard was sometimes unintentionally funny, though she'd laugh at herself in the end.
During a 2009 Senate committee discussion about a bill to make bestiality a crime, Bullard cracked up everyone in the room, and received national TV attention, when she was tripped up by the mention of the phrase "animal husbandry."
"People are taking these animals as their husbands? What's husbandry?" she asked. A few laughs ensued. And soon Bullard rolled along with it.
Bullard first served in the state House, from 1992-2000 and then the state Senate, from 2002-2012. Her Wikipedia page says Bullard was born July 21, 1947 in Allendale, S.C.
Bullard was ultimately a reliable Democratic vote, but she could also be unpredictable and independent. Her fellow Democrats struggled, at times, to keep her on board. In 2005, during the nationally watched Terri Schiavo euthanasia case, Florida Democrats battled to keep her from backing a Republican bill to keep the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube inserted. Bullard ultimately voted against the bill.
"Let Terri Schiavo die with dignity," she said at the time.
In a written statement, Senate President Don Gaetz summed up the life, and the loss, of Bullard.
"Larcenia Bullard had the biggest heart in the Senate. A proud Democrat, she was never an uncompromising partisan. A political pioneer among African-Americans, her passion for fairness and justice extended to all people," Gaetz said. "Every hard fight in committee or tough debate on the Senate floor always ended with her warmly embracing those with whom she disagreed and assuring them of her love. Every senator with whom she served can share stories of her compassion and good humor."
Though her health had been poor, her loss was crushing to many of those who were close to her.
"I grew up politically with Larcenia - have known her almost 30 years," longtime Miami lobbyist Bob Levy said in an email. "Her daughter calls me Uncle Bob. Her son - now Senator - worked four years for me while he went to FAMU. I went through Hurricane Andrew with them blow by blow literally. I had dinner with her two weeks ago Sunday when she was here for the opening and all she could do was talk about how proud she was of Dwight - and the love she has for her grandson - my niece Edwina's son."
"She had a heart of gold," he continued. "All of us have hysterical Larcenia stories. But she cared deeply about the people she represented and no one ever got that - why she always got opponents - and why she always blew them away...
"Many, many people will feel as heartbroken as I do by the news - just sad when we lose someone in our political family. But for me it was personal family."


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human909 wrote:jules21 wrote:human909 wrote:"Bad behaviour"? Is it now bad behaviour for children to ride without a helmet? Most of my childhood consisted of riding around the neighbourhood without helmets.
harking back to the 'good ol' days' isn't very convincing human.
So are kids less coordinated these days? Are they worse cyclists now? Are the roads harder?
the traffic is certainly worse. but the main difference is the change in societal acceptance of what is "safe".
drink driving and the utter carnage wreaked when it was socially acceptable was something "people did back in the old days and i can't think of anyone i know today who was killed doing that" - is that OK too?


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This lab test measures the levels of proteins called globulins in the fluid (serum) part of a blood sample.
Other electrophoresis tests that measure proteins in the serum include:
- Immunoelectrophoresis
- Protein electrophoresis
Alternative Names
Globulin electrophoresis
How the Test is Performed
A blood sample is needed.
At the lab, the technician places the blood sample on special paper and applies an electric current. The proteins move on the paper and form bands that show the amount of each protein.
How to Prepare for the Test
You may be asked not to eat to drink (fast) for 4 hours before the test.
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- Corticosteroids
- Phenacemide
- Salicylates
- Some kinds of antibiotics
- Tolbutamide
How the Test will Feel
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging. Afterward, there may be some throbbing or a slight bruise. This soon goes away.
Why the Test is Performed
This test is done to look at globulin proteins in the blood. Identifying the types of globulins can help diagnose certain medical problems.
Globulins are roughly divided into three groups: alpha, beta, and gamma globulins. Gamma globulines include various types of antibodies such as immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A.
Certain diseases are associated with overproduction of immunoglobulins. For example,
Normal Results
Normal values ranges are:
- Serum globulin: 2.0 to 3.5 g/dL (grams per deciliter)
- IgM component: 75 to 300 mg/dL
- IgG component: 650 to 1850 mg/dL
- IgA component: 90 to 350 mg/dL
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples.Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Increased gamma globulin proteins may indicate:
- Bone marrow cancer called
multiple myeloma Chronicinflammatory disease (for example, rheumatoid arthritisand systemic lupus erythematosus)
- Overactive immune system (
hyperimmunization) Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
- Excessive bleeding
- Fainting or feeling light headed
- Hematoma (blood accumulating under the skin)
- Infection (a slight risk any time the skin is broken)
McPherson R. Specific proteins. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR. Henrys Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 19.
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Zimmermann blanks Reds on 1 hit in Nats' 1-0 win
Zimmermann blanks Reds on 1 hit in Nats' 1-0 win
Jordan Zimmermann was terrific in his second complete game of the season and the Washington Nationals limited the Cincinnati Reds to one hit for the second straight game in a 1-0 victory on Friday night.
Zimmermann (4-1) struck out four and walked one while improving to 3-0 with a 1.36 ERA against Cincinnati. The right-hander needed only 91 pitches to record his third career complete game.
It was the first time the Reds managed just one hit in consecutive games since July 5-6, 1900, against Brooklyn, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau that the team provided. The Houston Astros from Sept. 14-15, 2008, were the last team with such a streak.


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Friday, February 11, 2011
Too much storage space = hoarding enabler
Homer does not have the same practicalities. He has bought sets of books that he never intends to read, but wanted for our bookshelf (SETS! Like, 12 volumes). He accumulates video games, gadgets and watches like no one I've ever seen. He'll hold onto a piece of clothing for years, even decades (sometimes items just 'disappear' and he doesn't seem to notice). He'll drive me nuts by bringing home a case of something (food item, cleaning product, etc.) and plopping it in the middle of the kitchen with a big, satisfied grin. My first thought is a panicky 'where will I put all this?' The result is that there's almost a line drawn down the middle of our room. My side is sparsely adorned and orderly and his has stacks and piles and lots of things that don't have a permanent home.
Still, I have my issues. I still have a whole stack of cloth diapers taking up space in a spare closet, even though my youngest is 3 years out of diapers. Why? I don't know, except that I haven't found anyone to give them to and I'm afraid that they'll be wasted if I give them to a stranger (I loved cloth diapering). I have a small cupboard that's stacked with the few pieces of memorabilia I do want to keep for my kids (class pictures, hand-print art projects, etc.), but it's literally a teetering stack with no rhyme, reason or organization. It's been on my to-do list for years (YEARS!) and I never even get around to starting the project. Hand-me-downs between the girls (from Lisa to Maggie) are getting a little out of control – I need to go through them and really evaluate what is worth hanging onto and what is better thrifted now (there's a 5-year age gap, so it has to be something really special to justify taking up space for another 4-5 years).
It helps that these things are behind closed doors, but it's those closed doors that have allowed me to not deal with them (enablers!) I have this theory that people who have big walk-in closets or massive storage areas, whether or not they are well-organized, are just putting off the purging and rationalizing that ought to be as routine in a home as changing the furnace filters, getting your gardens ready and changing your smoke detector batteries. Maybe I'm just jealous of people with big walk-in closets and massive storage areas. In any case, it's definitely time for me to deal with my little hoarding issues.
6 comments:
- Tess said...
I am totally a one-in-one out person too! I laughed because I would have done the same thing with the measuring cups! I mean, I don't need TWO! CLUTTER! AHH!
Which is why I had a minor freakout when Tosc and I consolidated our households. I couldn't get rid of enough stuff to make up for what he brought in. Over time, it's getting better, but we still have more stuff than I am comfortable with in one 2000 sq ft house.
- February 11, 2011 at 5:16 p.m.
- Suzie said...
I am so trying to learn to be this way!
- February 11, 2011 at 10:28 p.m.
- Chantal said...
I need to be more like you. I am more like Homer and my home suffers for it. I am trying to change my ways. I am not bringing much into my house but dealing with what is already here is a challenge.
- February 12, 2011 at 9:03 p.m.
- Bette said...
I tend to go through waves... one week nothing is safe in my home... and then for months on end, I feel the need to hold to every paper clip and elastic. I'm finding though, that less clutter around means less for me to clean. I have a large walk-in closet/storage area that i've been adding to in the hopes of a garage sale, but i bet you it will instead end up at Goodwill.
- February 13, 2011 at 9:16 p.m.
- Saly said...
I used to be a horrible pack rat. Now, after having something of a breakdown because we have TOO!MUCH!STUFF!, I throw a lot of things out or donate them etc. Don't get me wrong, we still have clutter, but it is WAY worse than it used to be.
- February 14, 2011 at 10:16 a.m.
- Nowheymama said...
I have been on a major cleaning binge, but I haven't touched the kids' clothing yet. I'm going to have to be strong about all those baby clothes....
- February 14, 2011 at 1:31 p.m.


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Bordering the Loop on the northern side of the Chicago River, the River North neighborhood is where the skyscrapers of downtown give way to the award-winning restaurants and trendy nightspots of the North Side. Once an industrial area, River North is today home to architectural gems—the Jenga-like Contemporaine residential building on Wells Street is a good example—as well as eateries to suit every appetite and budget.
Dining options range from inventive Peruvian cuisine at Tanta Restaurant to Chicago classics such as Portillo's. At Eataly, you could spend a full week working your way through the Italian offerings at 23 separate restaurants and food stalls.
In addition to its formidable culinary presence, River North boasts the country's largest concentration of art galleries outside of Manhattan. Born around the same time that Jim Nutt and other Chicago Imagists rose to prominence, the River North Gallery District runs along Chicago, Superior and Huron Streets, occupying century-old, red brick warehouses that have been converted into lofts and exhibition spaces.
Amid River North's restaurants, condos, nightclubs, and galleries, you'll also find the leaders of Chicago's rapidly growing tech sector. Among the companies that have offices here: Google, a gaggle of digital startups at the 1871 co-working space, and, yes, Groupon (we're in the old Montgomery Ward building, where the mail-order catalog was born).


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Twitter, HIV, Superheroes & Me
Writer and influential tweeter Kristian Johns has transformed his own experience of HIV into a superhero epic
In 2011, the UK website Pink News compiled a list of the 50 most influential LGBT people on Twitter. There, along with the likes of George Michael, was a gay writer and blogger from south London named Kristian Johns.
'I was number 49, but that's pretty good for a relative nobody, isn't it?' he says with a grin. 'Especially as the others in the list were people like Stephen Fry and Ellen DeGeneres. The "influential" tag can have its drawbacks though. I get brands following me just because they want me to flog their stuff for them, or people just asking for retweets. I'm on there for conversation and interaction, not marketing.'
Johns currently has 7,265 followers on Twitter - not bad, but nothing compared to Fry's 4 million or Ellen's 11 million. So why does he think he made the grade? 'At the risk of sounding like a cliché, I think you just have to be real,' he says. 'On a platform like social media, if you're constantly self-promoting and trying to get followers because it boosts your ego, then people just see straight through it. You've got to give to get back. Listen as well as talk and find common ground with people.'
Among the things Johns talks about is his HIV status. 'I've had HIV for ten years,' he says. 'And I'm healthy, happy and totally at ease with my status. But it was apparent that a lot of people weren't. I guess they looked up to me in a way, and I realised I could use writing to help people. Sometimes it feels like a big responsibility. But to be told you're a role model, or an inspiration - it gave me self-esteem at a time when I really didn't have much of my own.'
HIV also features in his first published work of fiction, 'Dying, and Other Superpowers' , which won critical praise and has now been turned into a short film. The story was published in an anthology, 'Boys and Girls', edited by yours truly. In it, a young gay man receives the news that he is HIV positive. At the same time, he discovers that he has developed superhuman abilities.
'Certain elements of the story are autobiographical,' says Johns. 'My character Josh's HIV diagnosis was a blow-by-blow account of how I felt and reacted when I received mine. Other elements, like the affair with his mother's boyfriend aren't! I grew up reading comics like X-Men and Spider-Man. I wanted to create a flawed hero, and I love the dichotomy of someone who has superhuman powers, but is limited by a very human condition. The impact on Josh's immune system when he uses his abilities is catastrophic. The HIV acts as his own inbuilt Kryptonite. It was a way of bringing HIV into the storyline, but it's really about his powers and what he decides to do when he realises it's a choice between saving himself or saving the world.'
The story was published in 2010. Soon afterwards, Johns was approached by film director Elias Ribeiro. 'He tracked me down on Facebook to say he loved the story, and asked if I'd be interested in meeting to discuss the possibility of turning it into a screenplay. Two days after the meeting I had the first few pages of the script.'
Johns worked closely with the production team throughout filming. 'But at the end of the day,the film looks and sounds completely different to how I imagined. What Elias has done is take a high-octane story and give it a very human twist. It might be my story, but it's 100 per cent his film.'
'Dying, and Other Superpowers' has been shortlisted for the Soho Rushes Film Festival and the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. 'We aim to take it to Cannes and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival next year,' says Johns. 'I'm in discussions with several parties about selling the rights to develop it into a full-length feature. I'm a bit gobsmacked by it all, to be honest.'
Meanwhile, Johns is working on a prequel to the story, called 'The 'Beginner's Guide to Saving the World'. 'I poured my heart and soul into those characters,' he says. 'And I'm not done with them yet.'
Kristian Johns reads at Polari on June 11. The Soho Rushes Film Festival runs July 11-20. See the trailer at www.urucumedia.com/dyingandothersuperpowers


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Ex-Va. governor's confidante testifies at trial
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's closest confidantes made it clear in testimony Monday that he doesn't have much regard for McDonnell's wife or the wealthy businessman who, according to prosecutors, bought their influence to benefit the nutritional supplements company he headed.
Bob and Maureen McDonnell are charged in a 14-count indictment with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from Jonnie Williams, the former CEO of Star Scientific Inc., in exchange for their help promoting his company's products. Williams testified under immunity that he was not friends with the McDonnells and only plied them with designer clothes, vacations and secret loans so they would help him.
Phil Cox, who managed McDonnell's 2009 campaign and later ran his political action committee, testified that he aired his concerns after he noticed Williams frequently hanging around the McDonnells.
"He definitely raised some red flags for me," said Cox, now executive director of the Republican Governors Association. "I thought he was a little bit of a snake oil salesman."
Prosecutor David Harbach asked if he thought Williams, who often loaned his private jet to McDonnell, wanted something from the governor.
"A lot of donors are looking for something," Cox said.
He also testified that in 2012, Williams and Maureen McDonnell tried unsuccessfully to get a meeting with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to pitch Star Scientific's signature product, the anti-inflammatory Anatbloc. McDonnell had just endorsed Romney and was being mentioned as a possible running mate.
Having failed to get an audience with the candidate, Maureen McDonnell cornered his wife, Ann Romney, on a campaign bus and began telling her how Anatabloc could cure her multiple sclerosis, Cox testified.
"I was horrified," Cox said. "I didn't think it sort of showed the governor in a great light."
Cox also said he got an email from an angry Maureen McDonnell on Christmas eve 2009, after he had advised against Williams buying an inauguration dress for her.
"It was sort of an insane rant of an email," Cox said. "Coming on Christmas eve, it angered me."
Asked by Bob McDonnell's attorney his opinion of Maureen, Cox said: "When she was happy she could be very sweet and caring. When she was unhappy she could be very difficult and mean."
He expressed a much higher opinion of the former governor, saying he "tends to think the best of everybody."
Asked by the defense attorney if McDonnell ever seemed to crave money and fine things, Cox said: "He's like the least materialistic person I know."
Cox was the first witness to testify after Williams, who spent much of four days on the stand detailing his spending on the McDonnells in an attempt to get them to attend promotional events and help him obtain grants for further study of Anatabloc. No grants were awarded, but the McDonnells attended several events and hosted the Anatabloc product launch at the governor's mansion. The governor's PAC paid for that event, Cox testified.
Williams testified Monday that he never saw any signs the governor's marriage was crumbling, and that he never had any intimate physical contact with the first lady.
A defense attorney said last week that the first lady, feeling neglected by her frequently absent husband, had developed a crush on Williams and that he had led her on — suggesting, perhaps, that the McDonnells could not be conspiring to obtain gifts and loans from Williams because they were barely communicating.
"I didn't know she had any interest in me until this past week," Williams sheepishly said on the stand.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dry asked specifically whether Williams and Maureen McDonnell had any intimate contact.
"I never had any contact with Mrs. McDonnell — no physical contact, period," he said.
Williams also said Maureen McDonnell never told him her marriage was on the rocks, and he saw no signs that it was. To further make the point, the prosecution showed two photos of the McDonnells at public events. They were holding hands in one, and Bob McDonnell was kissing his wife on the cheek in the other.
Defense attorneys last week noted that Williams and Maureen McDonnell had exchanged text messages and phone calls more than 1,200 times in less than two years, suggesting that the relationship between Williams and the McDonnells was not strictly business as Williams has said. Dry put that number in context, though, by mentioning Monday that during the same period Williams made or received about 109,000 calls and texts.
Asbill asked Williams whether having the governor call the businessman's father on his 80th birthday was business or personal. Williams said it was personal, but it wouldn't have been possible without his spending on the McDonnells.
"This cost me, in my mind, hundreds of thousands of dollars even to be able to do that," he said.
Among the gifts Bob McDonnell received was a Rolex watch purchased by Williams and given to the governor by his wife for Christmas 2012. Williams received a text message that Christmas Eve with a photo of a smiling McDonnell showing off the timepiece.
"My first thought was I was scared to death," Williams said of his reaction to seeing the picture. "It's the first time I'm sure he knew it came from me."
Williams testified last week that Maureen McDonnell asked him to buy the watch, and it was a mistake to do so.
Bob McDonnell's attorney, Henry Asbill, also challenged Williams' credibility by questioning him about lawsuits he and Star faced over allegations of securities violations. Williams said he thought most of the half-dozen "nuisance suits" by Star shareholders had been settled or soon would be, but Asbill noted that two were put on hold at the request of prosecutors in the McDonnell case.
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Unfortunately it is the prof.'s first time teaching the class so there are no previous outlines or exams to look at...Nor are any of the cases we studied cited in any supplements.
I highly HIGHLY recommend Acing Civil Procedures by Spencer. There's an invaluable checklist and the hypos are spot on. The only thing it doesn't cover is class actions, but other than that, it's gold. Helped me get through civ pro, and I never even cracked E&E or emmanuels. It's short too, and cheap. Small paperback at about 23 bucks. Check it out:


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Some airports charge you for Internet. Some don't (Daytona Beach International Airport, you rule!). And then there's the rocking-chair-filled Charlotte airport, which makes discriminating gamers pay a heavy, heavy price. I tried to log onto Charlotte's free, magical wireless Internet this past Sunday, and I hit the obstacle you see screencapped above. I had to download a free game? To get online?
These games looked crappy. Or at least they seemed like they were not for me. Yes, one of them is the self-described "#1 Dragon breeding game!", but I do not care for such things.
Would you have gone for the non-game? The flirting app?
I downloaded the Marvel game, confirmed that I was online and then promptly deleted it from my iPad.
Since I sync my apps across my iPhone and iPad, I only realised this morning that the Marvel game was now on my phone. Spreading like a disease! But spreading no more. I just deleted it.
Well-played Charlotte airport. Better that than a Boingo hotspot. But, good lord, offer some better games next time.


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Sochi, Russia: Russia's deputy prime minister has confirmed the Kremlin's view on gay rights in Sochi, asking athletes to "leave the kids alone."
Dmitry Kozak told a news conference Thursday that Russian organizers will not discriminate against visitors or athletes because of their sexuality, but he backed the government's support for the so-called gay propaganda law.
Kozak said athletes are free to express their views and discuss their sexuality. However, he asked them to stay away from children, saying "leave the kids alone."
Russia introduced a bill last year that outlawed the "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations." Gay groups say the law has contributed to the intolerance of sexual minorities in Russia.


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Tea & Books - What are you reading?
Currently taking a break from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, because despite buying more books than I can handle, I always end up breaking in the middle to check out a bunch from my library. And then of course since those have due dates…
So the above is on hold so that I may read Under the Dragon's Tail, from Maureen Jenning's Murdoch Mysteries.
Just started HARD RAIN FALLING by Don Carpenter. If you like film noir, crime fiction, and great writing you will LOVE this book. I couldn't put it down! http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/hard-rain-falling/
Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian and as far as I know the last book in the series…
I've been reading nonfiction since I simply tired of novels. I'll be back to them soon. I'm nearing the end of a book called Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. It's been highly informative and interesting. It has also confirmed all my suspicions about the misuse and misrepresentation of science in media and popular culture. Scariest of all is the purposeful faulty research performed in order to force a desired conclusion. For medicine even! People have died! :(
The author does have a sense of humor so it's not such a depressing read. I'd recommend it for required reading in science classes at schools. Just excerpts maybe, but I think it has an important message.
Now reading A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett I really liked the movie so I thought I would read the classic book :D
Hoping for some quiet time this weekend to reread A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie King). Sherlock, retired, meets a precocious half-American university student, mentors her, and adventures ensue. Really liked the series, up until the last three books or so.
Now reading Bitten by Kelley Armstrong a Canadian author :) I love her otherworld series :D
I finally got around to starting 11/22/63, and I'm liking it a lot.
Right now I'm reading Lamb by Christopher Moore and Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher.
Due to my recent obsession with BBC's Sherlock, I've started reading the old classic Sherlock stories. I didn't like hem when I attempted them in the past, but now that I can imagine my favorite characters in the stories it is much better. :)
I'm also reading The Picture of Dorian Grey as a part of Steepster's book club. Seems like just me and MadelineAlyce at the moment. :)


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The action concerns getting the county a share of federal funds being allocated through the state for repair of rural roads damaged by exploration for oil and gas.
Judge Dean Fowler told the court that "there's no downside to this."
He said that $630,000 will be available to be used on county roads. Any money not allocated in the first round because some counties do not apply for it will be reallocated. The allocation weighs factors such as how much exploration is going on in a county, and how much road damage it is suffering.
"It's a pretty big deal," Fowler said.
The county's match of any grant would be 20 percent under the proposal, but Pct. 3 Comm. Frank Berka asked Mrs. Smith about qualifying for a 10 percent match he had heard about.
She said that was for "disadvantaged counties," and the county would have to meet certain criteria. She said it could qualify for the 20 percent grant if turned down for a 10 percent grant.
Pct. 4 Comm. Mike Spencer made the motion to begin the grant work, and Pct. 1 Comm. Paula Gentry seconded it. It passed unanimously.
The court also approved appointment of Julie York as Family and Consumer Sciences agent, in the Extension Education Office located in the 9-1-1 building (old Gilmer National Bank drive-thru).
She previously has been an Extension agent in Oklahoma.
She will join the office on Jan. 6, and will begin full-time in Upshur County Feb. 1.
The court appointed Dennis Medlin of the East Mountain Volunteer Fire Department to fill a vacancy on the board of the Emergency Services District, created when long-time member George "Mick" Whisenhunt recently resigned. In his resignation letter, Whisenhunt said he had enjoyed his years on the board, but felt it was time for younger people to take over guidance of the district.
The court voted to advertise for bids for county fuel and Road and Bridge Department supplies and materials. Bids are due in by Jan. 30, and will be opened at the Jan. 31 meeting of the court.
The court took no action on requesting proposals for IT support and maintenance and infrastructure.


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Brussels, 15 April 2010
Air travel: volcanic ash cloud - EU passenger rights continue to apply
Speaking today following the closure of airspace and airports in more than 8 EU counties including Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, due the volcanic eruption in Iceland, European Commission Vice President Siim Kallas responsible for Transport said:
"The volcanic ash cloud is a very significant threat to air safety. National authorities are required to take decisions to ensure safety under international law, such as closure of airspace and airports, without discrimination between airlines.
In this case, the airports and those responsible for air traffic control have taken very swift and appropriate action to safeguard the public. And there is excellent co-ordination and co-operation at European level, notably within Eurocontrol.
But even in exceptional circumstances EU passenger rights continue to apply and air travellers should speak up to claim their rights."
With regard to passenger rights, the Vice President added:
"This is a situation which is causing immense difficulties for passengers travelling throughout Europe. It can be considered a very exceptional circumstance. Nevertheless, it is important to remind passengers and airlines that EU passenger rights do apply in this situation":
In an exceptional circumstance such as this, passengers are not however entitled to additional financial compensation that would be the case where delays or cancellations are the fault of the airline.
These rights are established by the EU Directive on air passenger rights (Regulation 261/2004)
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