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Listening to the effusive statements of support for the people of Egypt and the "unfolding" Islamic revolution in the land of the Nile by virtually the entire leadership of Iran, I was reminded of that wonderful Persian adage: "You say something; I believe it. You insist; I begin to wonder. You swear on it; I know you're lying."
The dear gentlemen could well be autocrats at their most clueless, but the look and feel is that of a clumsy brood scrambling to own a narrative that has disowned them even in their very own country. As if to make sure that the lie was not lost on any of us, their chest pounding was taking place in full view of renewed house arrests, imprisonments and clampdowns on opposition websites and news outlets.
The twin tools of oppression and appeasement, not to mention talk of foreign conspiracies, are, of course, almost identical to Mubarak's and those of every other maestro still standing. Different from each other as all these despots are, when push comes to shove they all become brothers in arms: same tactics, same rhetoric, same textbook, really, and a frightening (or reassuring, as the case maybe) paucity of imagination.
Perhaps Iran's strongmen are under the firm impression that their time-tested methods will prevent a repeat of upheaval on their own streets, those that in fact were the first in the area to agitate against power in 2009. Perhaps they feel that they have already weathered past unrest and are now home free, ready to reap the windfall of a collapsing Arab order. Perhaps, like Bashar Assad, they think that Palestine and populism have placed them on the right side of history.
We soon shall see. But of the many messages that are hanging everywhere on Ben Ali and Mubarak's exits, like post-it-notes on the clipboard of history, one reads like a thrilling dispatch from the trenches:
If has finally turned into When…All bets are off…For everybody…
Each and every locale, however unique its features and many its complexities, deserves to be in our sight. But already, the lines that had defined the old geopolitical map don't count. Israel, only three months ago, looked across the entire Arab landscape and, except for a bump or two, saw flatlands all the way to Turkey and Iran. In good time, it could well be the Arabs (and Palestinians) who will turn more challenging and Iran more bland.
But gone as well are the challenges of the old, familiar kind. If, indeed, dignity is the lead aspiration and grievance in Tunisia and Egypt, it is because of so much more than Palestine. Citizenship, it might help Bashar and AhmadiNejad to know, is the cause for which Tunisians and Egyptians marched. That old one-two of brute force and breadcrumbs--that's the rule of thumb that the Tunisian and Egyptian people have just retired.
Gone, finally, is the smug certainty that the Arab person just does not have it in them; that the security state can guarantee continuity in the absence of leadership; that fear is a good enough substitute for performance; that inhuman treatment and indecency can be camouflaged by lofty rhetoric, even if the name of God himself is invoked as fan and sponsor.
If arrogance and contempt for the Arab person did Ben Ali and Mubarak in, so they shall Israel and, yes, all those lined up with or against it in the region.
Conjecture has become all of a sudden fun. But of all the newfound realities competing for our attention, two have grabbed for themselves seats in the front: the imperative of open dissent and the beauty of nonviolence. The rest--and there are many making their entrance--need patience and more time still.
To be sure, that decades-long debate among clean, serious and well intentioned people on the feasibility of working within repressive systems to improve them has finally been settled: the proposition is not only silly, it is downright dangerous.
So, for those who have long hoped that discreet prodding is more than enough to persuade stern men to become more gentle; or for those who have long believed that islands of excellence can swim in a sea of muck; or for those who have long compared regimes and thanked their stars that they live under this ugly one and not that merciless one; or for those who have long kept silent about unbearable humiliation because Palestine comes first, Tunisia and Egypt have rendered a clear answer.
Whispers by these good people will have to turn into open reservations, private demands into public declarations. They will have to lobby and put conditions in the glare of light, make their voice part of the conversation. There is no case anymore for acquiescence, but there is a very compelling one for change and hope, and they have to be its most passionate advocates.
Nonviolence is a thing of beauty that Tunisia and Egypt have made live again. If Palestine was becoming increasingly unlikely because of the scandalous duplicity of Abbas and the astonishing idiocy of Hamas, the nonviolence of the Tunisian and Egyptian resistance has just recast it as doable.
Now is the time for the Palestinians to commit wholesale to peaceful resistance for Palestine, as some of them have been doing in the villages and by the Wall. The task is daunting and the facts on the ground are extremely unfriendly; however, the Palestinians have the pedigree, the experience and a strong network of alliances that reaches into the heart of Israel and the West. They have a stumped, stark naked enemy in the Israeli occupation. They have the cause and the world's attention if they want it—but only for the briefest of moments.


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Globe investigation: The Ford family's history with drug dealing
By Greg McArthur and Shannon Kari
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Long before the current controversy at Toronto City Hall, The Globe and Mail set out to trace the Ford brothers' rise to prominence. Reporters found the Mayor's siblings have former ties to drug trafficking, a charge of physical assault and other brushes with the law
This investigative report reveals that:
Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's brother, sold hashish for several years in the 1980s.
Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug trade and was once charged in relation to a drug-related kidnapping.
Their sister, Kathy, has been the victim of drug-related gun violence.
In the 1980s, anyone wanting to buy hashish had to know where to go. And in central Etobicoke, the wealthy Toronto suburb where Mayor Rob Ford grew up, one of those places was James Gardens. In the evening, the sports cars often wound along Edenbridge Drive, past the gated homes and the lawn-bowling pitches, until they reached the U-shaped parking lot. By nightfall, the public park was a hash drive-thru. One former street dealer, whom we will call "Justin," described the scene as "an assembly line."
There were usually a number of dealers to choose from, some of them supplied by a mainstay at James Gardens – a young man with the hulk-like frame and mop of bright blond hair: Doug Ford. "Most people didn't approach Doug looking for product. You went to the guys that he supplied. Because if Doug didn't know you and trust you, he wouldn't even roll down his window," Justin said.
Today, Mr. Ford is a member of Toronto's city council – and no ordinary councillor. First elected in 2010 as his brother was swept into the mayor's office, he has emerged as a truly powerful figure at City Hall –– trying to overhaul plans for Toronto's waterfront less than a year after arriving. He also has higher aspirations, and has said he wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, Doug Ford Sr., by running in the next provincial election as a Conservative.
Meanwhile, he serves as his brother's de facto spokesman. As Toronto is gripped by allegations that its mayor was captured on a homemade video smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and his office descends into disarray – his chief of staff was fired on Thursday – Doug Ford has been the only person to mount a spirited public defence of his largely silent sibling. On Friday, after the Mayor finally made a statement about the accusation, he was the one who fielded questions from the press.
Well before the events of the past week, The Globe and Mail began to research the Ford brothers in an effort to chronicle their lives before rising to prominence in Canada's largest city. Over the past 18 months, it has sought out and interviewed dozens of people who knew them in their formative years.
What has emerged is a portrait of a family once deeply immersed in the illegal drug scene. All three of the mayor's older siblings – brother Randy, 51, and sister Kathy, 52, as well as Doug, 48 – have had ties to drug traffickers.
Ten people who grew up with Doug Ford – a group that includes two former hashish suppliers, three street-level drug dealers and a number of casual users of hash – have described in a series of interviews how for several years Mr. Ford was a go-to dealer of hash. These sources had varying degrees of knowledge of his activities: Some said they purchased hash directly from him, some said they supplied him, while others said they observed him handling large quantities of the drug.
The events they described took place years ago, but as mayor, Rob Ford has surrounded himself with people from his past. Most recently he hired someone for his office whose long history with the Fords, the sources said, includes selling hashish with the mayor's brother.
The Globe wrote to Doug Ford outlining what the sources said about him, and received a response from Gavin Tighe, his lawyer, who said the allegations were false. "Your references to unnamed alleged sources of information represent the height of irresponsible and unprofessional journalism given the gravely serious and specious allegations of substantial criminal conduct."
There's nothing on the public record that The Globe has accessed that shows Doug Ford has ever been criminally charged for illegal drug possession or trafficking. But some of the sources said that, in the affluent pocket of Etobicoke where the Fords grew up, he was someone who sold not only to users and street-level dealers, but to dealers one rung higher than those on the street. His tenure as a dealer, many of the sources say, lasted about seven years until 1986, the year he turned 22. "That was his heyday," said "Robert," one of the former drug dealers who agreed to an interview on the condition he not be identified by name.
Upon being approached, the sources declined to speak if identified, saying they feared the consequences of outing themselves as former users and sellers of illegal drugs.
The Globe also tried to contact retired police officers who investigated drugs in the area at the time. One said he had no recollection of encountering the Fords.
Another, whose name appeared on court documents in relation to allegations of assault and forcible confinement committed by Randy Ford, said he could not recall the incident. Several did not respond.
Since entering public life, both Fords have been ardent supporters of Toronto police and have campaigned, over the years, on increasing the police presence on Etobicoke's streets. In December, 2011, Doug Ford showed up, unannounced, at a police press conference to trumpet the force's crackdown on a network of drug dealers who were selling, among other things, marijuana.
Doug, like Rob, frequently promotes the Ford family as a type of brand – one that started with their late father's four-year tenure as an MPP in the government of former Ontario premier Mike Harris. Doug Ford is fond of invoking his family's contributions to the community. Through his involvement with the Rotary Club of Etobicoke, he has helped to organize events like the Etobicoke Fall Fair. He frequently mentions the many sports teams that the Ford family business, Deco Labels and Tags, has sponsored over the years. He also cites the many football teams his younger brother has coached, and the hordes of people – he puts the figure at 25,000 – the Fords have entertained at their annual backyard barbecue.
But long before he took over the family business and pursued public office, Doug Ford's circle of friends was a group of young people who called themselves the RY Drifters, after the Royal York Plaza, a strip mall many of them frequented.
The Fords' neighbourhood was paradoxical in some respects. It teemed with wealth; families who settled there after the Second World War, such as the Fidanis and the Brattys, would become known as the biggest players in Toronto-area land development. As his sticker and label business flourished, Doug Ford Sr. was featured in the society pages of The Globe, rubbing elbows with cabinet ministers, senators and members of the Eaton family.
But the prosperity disguised a disturbing trend among many of the area's young adults – an attraction to crime that went beyond typical teenage rebellion. Former Ford associates interviewed for this story identified at least 10 RY Drifters who became heroin addicts, some of whom turned to break-ins and robberies to support their habits.
In recent years, the Ford family home has become known for the annual barbecue, attended by hundreds of neighbours and a Who's Who of Conservative luminaries – including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. But in the 1980s, the finished basement at 15 Weston Wood Rd. was one of the many places Doug Ford did business, the sources said.
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Following the lead of former Wild star Marian Gaborik, five Wild players have purchased three of the 66 Xcel Energy Center suites and are dispensing tickets for those suites to charitable causes this season.
The annual cost of a suite is between $100,000 and $200,000.
Goalie Niklas Backstrom, who joined Mikko Koivu and Nick Schultz to purchase one of the suites, said the trio is giving the tickets away because "everybody in our locker room, all the hockey players, know how fortunate they are to play here."
After Minnesota's first home exhibition game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Backstrom visited children in that suite.
"There a lot of things in this world money can't buy," he said. "Just to see the faces on those kids, just to give them a chance to be there, it's hard to describe."
Also purchasing suites this season were Martin Havlat and Brent Burns. Havlat is giving away his tickets to children; Burns is distributing his tickets to National Guard members.
"It makes you feel good," Koivu said.
In addition to 66 suites sold on a seasonal basis, eight suites are available on a per-game basis, according to Matt Majka, Wild chief operating officer. Most of the suites have been gobbled up, he said, but because of the economy, some purchasers have cut back and are sharing suites during the season.
The players received no discounts, he added.
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RALEIGH, NC (AP) — North Carolina's attorney general is again seeking the power for prosecutors to call investigative grand juries for public corruption cases, saying the tool makes it easier to look into cases involving powerful people.
Attorney General Roy Cooper and Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby said Thursday at a news conference that prosecutors need to use the investigative grand juries for both public corruption and financial fraud cases.
They also want legislators to make it a crime to lie to State Bureau of Investigation agents.
Rep. Leo Daughtry of the House Judiciary Committee says when the bill came up several years ago, legislators were concerned that prosecutors would use the grand juries to go after political enemies.
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Have you heard of Zappos? One of my very first interactions with Zappos was a tour of their headquarters just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. (Actually my very first interaction was having my good friend Lucretia introduce me to the founder, Tony Hsieh at a SXSW Cocktail party–not that he'd ever remember our 10 second conversation). But back to the tour–Wow, what an experience. Talk about an awesome corporate culture and a place that just seemed so incredibly fun to work at–they've been on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For® list six years in a row. I'd work their in a heartbeat if I lived anywhere nearby.
This is a company that really takes care of their customers and employees–seriously. No matter who you are, when you are hired by Zappos (and it's a long process for them to decide if you are a good fit with their culture) you are expected to spend the first three to four weeks manning a phone in their call center learning how to respond to customer needs. Management. Advertising. Executives. Everybody. Even cooler–at the end of that call center period you are offered $3,000 to quit. But if you take the money, you can never apply again. Why? Because they want to make sure that everyone who works for them is really sure that they committed to their core values and serving their customers. And those folks in the call centers? They are fully empowered to serve customers–they do not work from a script and are encouraged to use their imagination to make customers happy. They do not have to ask permission from a boss to give their customers the wow factor.
Doesn't that sound like a company you can be happy to do business with? And on top of all that–they have free shipping and free returns. ALL. THE. TIME. That means you can order apparel and accessories (or anything they sell) without having to worry–if it doesn't fit or you don't like it, you can return it!
So when I was offered the chance to talk about Zappos and do $300 worth of back to school shopping with them I jumped at it. I knew I'd be able to find great, popular brand clothing and shoes, avoid the stores (ick–I'm not a big fan of long shopping expeditions) and purchase worry free because if the sizing wasn't right I could just send it back for a different size.
I went online to make my back to school choices. We had already purchased a backpack for Buddy when this opportunity came up, and Princess still has hers from last year in good shape, so we didn't need those. I did however look through their selection–it was really nice. Everything from the cutesy little kid stuff to sporty backpacks and more trendy messenger bags.
Since I was choosing full priced, quality items (you all know I love a good thrift store and do a lot of shopping that way)–I wanted to pick out key pieces that would last–things that would really benefit from being a good quality name brand. I was glad to see that most of the items on Zappos had a good number of reviews–I always like to see feedback from other customers on fit–does it run small, large, just right?
For each kiddo I decided to purchase a pair of sneakers, a nice zippered hoodie style sweatshirt (ever popular) and a light raincoat. Why a raincoat? Well, due to our proximity to the middleschool and highschool my kids don't get busing and have to walk. They both really need a nice quality light weight raincoat to wear in the fall and spring that can last a couple of years. (Yes, I did buy it a bit large for both of them hoping to get at least 2 years). I had a little bit left over, so Buddy got a pair of those athletic pants that 11 year old boys like to wear year round.
Choosing the exact items had me a bit nervous. Princess was away at camp for three weeks and I had to pick things out for her without any input. You know how 13 year old girls are–they have DEFINITE ideas about fashion. Again–the free return shipping and commitment to customer satisfaction reassured me, if I chose something that made her roll her eyes it would be a hassle free process to send it back.
My purchases came in just 3 days. It was super fast shipping!
Here's a little preview of what I bought for the kids, you will have to wait for the next post to see how the kids liked them and how they look on 🙂
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Registration System
ANR Events Management System
To access the events management system, visit events.anr.msu.edu. This is the online registration system that will help collect registration information and collect registration fees. It is available to all staff with an anr.msu.edu email address.
To download the banner images that can be used as a headers in the registration system, go to the MSU SharePoint site (MSU Employees Only) and save the images to a local folder on your computer.
How To
To help guide you through the process of creating an event in the Events Management System, use the following documents:
- Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating an Event (MSU Employees Only) - This document will guide you through the process of creating an event in the system.
- Event Information for Creation of Registration System (MSU Employees Only)- This form can be used to assist you with collecting and preparing the information you need to create an event in the system. This form will be particularly helpful in the development of your first few events in the system. Once you have more familiarity and comfort with the system, entering the events without use of this document will be much easier.
- Posting Tips - Tips to follow when creating an event on the ANR Events Management System or when posting an event to the MSUE Events Calendar.
- Activation Checklist (MSU Employees Only) - Use this checklist prior to requesting activation of your event in the Events Management System to help expedite the activation process.
- Frequently Asked Questions (MSU Employees Only) - A compilation of the most frequently asked questions regarding the events management system.
- County Staff FAQ's - A compilation of questions that will be most pertinent to county staff working with 4-H programs. There are also frequently asked questions for 4-H Families who are registering within the system.
To learn more about the process of collecting registrant payments within the new registration system, read this brief informational document (MSU Employees Only).
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Training is available to help you learn how to use the online registration system. To register for one of the training webinars or live in-person trainings, visit our resources for specific dates and times. This link includes several pre-recorded trainings and other event planning resources. There is also a training version of the registration system that you use to practice entering your events before using the live system. Once you have participated and/or listened to one of the online training sessions, you will be given the site for the training system.
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RANCHO CORDOVA (AP) — A man whose wife and two children were brutally slain in their Sacramento-area home said Thursday that he allowed his younger brother to stay with the family despite strained relations and a history of violent threats.
Denis Bukhantsov described the events for the first time since he found his wife, son and daughter murdered in their duplex two days earlier. His brother, 19-year-old Grigoriy Bukhantsov, is being held in Sacramento County Jail and faces an initial court appearance Friday. No charges have been filed.
Denis Bukhantsov, who is 29, said he allowed his brother into his home to take shelter from the rain Monday.
"I let him stay at our house. He was fine, he was calm," said Bukhantsov, as he and other family members spoke to the media at a sheriff's station.
After announcing the arrest of the younger brother on Wednesday, a Sacramento County sheriff's spokesman described a history of difficult family dynamics, saying "something bad was brewing" between the young man and his relatives. His father had even requested two temporary restraining orders last year, describing direct threats against the family.
Despite those warnings, Denis Bukhantsov said he did not believe his brother would harm his family.
"It was some fear, but I never thought it would happen to my family," he said. "Maybe my parents because he was living with them."
The couple's 6-month-old son was not harmed in the attack and was carried into the news conference Thursday by his father.
Denis Bukhantsov said he doesn't believe law enforcement could have prevented his brother from hurting his family.
"I don't think (the) system can save us. He was part of our family, too. He was my brother — he is my brother," he said.
Alina's mother, Nadezhda Oliferchik, said her daughter and grandchildren were good, friendly people.
"I hope I see her in heaven and my grandchildren," the grandmother said. "They were very, very nice children. I miss you."
Records show Grigoriy Bukhantsov was on probation after spending about seven months in jail for felony burglary after breaking into a home and stealing an iPod.
According to records at the Sacramento County Superior Court clerk's office, a judge granted their father, Aleksey Bukhantsov, two temporary restraining orders against the 19-year-old in 2011, but both expired when the family did not seek to have them made permanent.
The father claimed that his son twice threatened to kill the family "like Soltys did" and "to burn the house while everyone is sleeping."
It was a reference to another horrific crime involving Sacramento's large Slavic immigrant community. Nikolay Soltys, a 27-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, was charged with killing his pregnant wife, 3-year-old son and four other relatives in Rancho Cordova in 2001. He later hanged himself in jail.
The father claimed his son was drunk, yelled profanity, hit his sister in the stomach, and punched holes into walls. He stole personal items and money. He even threatened to stab everyone, including the children in the family.
"He threatened to shoot us and stab," Aleksey Bukhantsov wrote in one of his applications.
Denis Bukhantsov described returning home from class Tuesday afternoon to find the bodies. He said he went to a neighbor's to call for help and when he went back to the house, he found the baby unharmed in his crib.
Bukhantsov said he was grateful to still have his son.
"Thank God I still have Mark," he said. "I have someone to live for. I'll try to take care of him the best I can."
The triple murders have rocked the large immigrant community that began arriving in the 1990s from the former Soviet Union to flee religious persecution. The immigrants came primarily from the Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and other former Soviet republics, and settled in Sacramento's suburbs.
Drawn by Christian radio programs and newspapers, many of these immigrants are devout members of Baptist and Pentecostalism churches.
"They came here to make America their new home but we are not excused from unexpected tragedies that can happen," said Florin Ciuriuc, the executive director of the Slavic Community Center of Sacramento.


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(Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition)
Two political prisoners are sitting on a fallen tree during a work break. One of them, a former screenwriter named Platonov, is telling the narrator the story of his "second life," his life in the camps. It turns out that Platonov has spent a year at the Jankhar mine, a place notorious even by the standards of Kolyma, a region of northeastern Siberia.
Platonov explains, however, that only the first few months were bad. The only political prisoner—therefore the only educated one—among common criminals, he survived the year at Jankhar by telling the stories of Alexandre Dumas, perè, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells, and in return was fed, clothed, and protected by the thieves. He assumes that the narrator has also made use of this, the one advantage of the literate prisoner. The narrator has never been a "novelist," however, and suggests that "novel-telling" is the lowest form of humiliation. At the same time, he does not find fault with Platonov and says only that a starving man can be forgiven much.
Platonov plans, if he lives long enough, to write a story about his own storytelling career, and he has even thought of a title, "The Snake Charmer." However, he dies too soon—three weeks after this conversation, he collapses while breaking rock and dies as so many have died, of hunger, weakness, and heart failure. The narrator, who liked Platonov for his curiosity and lively interest in the world outside, decides to tell the snake charmer's story.
The snake charmer's story begins as Platonov finishes his first, exhausting day at Jankhar. He waits for the roll to be called and while waiting reflects on...
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Used games are one of the most polarizing topics in gaming today. Gamers love them, and almost universally stand by them, while those working in the industry most likely hate the fact that a retailer like GameStop has gained such a strong standing. The European Union's ruling on digital games, and the generally positive reaction in the comments section of every site I found that bit of news on, got me thinking more about the effects of used sales on the market. I can't speak from the industry side, but I can from the gamer's and say that, perhaps the used game phenomenon might not be as great for the consumer as it appears to be. (I encourage everyone to read the ENTIRE blog before commenting as I realize this may not be a wildly popular stance to take.)
The pros of used games from the buyer's perspective appear, at first glance, to so clearly outweigh the cons that arguing against them would be nothing short of insane. Used games can sometimes sell for $10-$15 less than their new counter parts, largely due to the fact that prices fluctuate more readily with demand in that environment. Saving this money often allows consumers to obtain games they would otherwise have passed up, most likely by buying those games pre-owned as well. The used game market has also contributed heavily to the growth of the game industry, providing retail outlets dedicated entirely to videogames.
Since they aren't sealed at purchase, most can be returned within a week if the buyer felt the game wasn't worth the money. Used game retailers also offer store credit that can be rolled into other games or even consoles, helping players to keep finding new titles to sink their time into or move into the newest generation. Many gamers also, no doubt, see them as a way to avoid paying too much for a game that isn't worth their money. With so much working in favor of used games, it's sometimes hard to see the more sinister side.
It's a tough pill for most gamers to swallow, but the publishers aren't necessarily acting entirely out of greed when they express displeasure towards used games. Their stance is well founded from their perspective and they most certainly aren't out to get those people that purchase their product. It's fact that they spend a boatload of money on these games and don't often hit it big enough in the AAA market, which walks an already tenuous line, to keep making a series. There's a lot of money on the line here and used games almost certainly have an impact on whether or not your favorite developer stays in business. And while used games may not be the sole problem that AAA developers and publishers face, it's certainly a considerable one. That negative impact doesn't exclusively affect those large publishers that throw around tens of millions though.
Like it or not, used games throw the industry off balance. On the back end they may actually hurt gamers more than they help them. From the industry side, used games are likely a significant factor in the perpetuation of the much maligned $60 price point that gamers decry on such a regular basis. Developers and publishers of large games know that they can't count on sales late into a game's life-cycle, so they feel compelled to get as much money up front as possible. Consequently, persistence of that $60 entry price has caused any games selling for less to be immediately assumed inferior by the public, starting the cycle that we're now stuck in. All these things then perpetuate a need for DRM to protect what new sales there will be, launch day DLC to entice players to buy new, and the online passes that players so often complain about to maintain online services.
From the consumer side, digging deeper than the surface reveals that all those good things are little more than polish on a turd. Used games and products are often of inferior quality, with some seeming almost as if they had been trampled on by their former owners - which they may very well have been. They come covered in stickers, along with whatever grime their previous owner left behind, and without all the goodies that came packed in at launch.
Selling a game back to a used retailer like GameStop will never net the player more than 50% of the game's value, and even then only if they trade the game back within a couple weeks after release and use that money to preorder another new game. In reality, it's more like 10% or 20% of face value, meaning gamers may get back $10 for a game that's worth $40... if they're lucky. To top it all off, none of the $20-$30 of profit that a place like GameStop makes off resale will find its way back into the industry. In essence, used games siphon money from the industry like a parasite. Yet despite contributing directly to much of what gamers universally dislike, they still have the consumer staunchly defending them.
This brings me full circle, back to the EU's ruling on digital game licenses. So many people, without thinking, immediately deemed this a good thing. In reality, it's anything but and proliferation of resale of digital content could severely damage the smaller, more artistic side of the industry. The side that doesn't have millions to throw around. Small developers flock to the digital space because they do not have the resources necessary to distribute their games physically, and in many cases they're developing products that would not succeed at retail anyways.
Unfortunately, working primarily through the internet means that their titles are much more susceptible to being pirated. The last thing they need is more of what little profit they scrape out of their hard work taken away. If large corporations have a hard time making up the difference, just imagine how that would effect a small dev team like Playdead, who created Limbo. The guys who don't have the backing to implement the same protective measures as AAA publishers could be wiped out in the blink of eye.
It may leave a bitter taste in your mouth to admit it, but the negative effects of used games severely outweigh the good that comes from offering gamers a cheaper alternative. Without those used games, there may very well be a more flexible pricing model in the retail market. Without used games there almost certainly wouldn't be launch day DLC or online passes. The phrase, "you can't have your cake and eat it too", comes to mind here. It's painfully hypocritical to both complain about those practices we find unsavory and simultaneously support that which makes them necessary.
I know full well that used games aren't going anywhere, all I'm asking is that those who took the time to read this blog all the way through take a much shorter amount of time to think about the fact that there are two sides of this coin. That they don't so blindly and wholeheartedly support something that, in actuality, may be costing them, and the entire gaming industry, so much more in the long run.


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Full disclosure: this writer has not had the pleasure of reading Leo Tolstoy's "great" 1877 literary tome "Anna Karenina," but with Cliff Notes and so many filmic incarnations of the oft-told story available, why not just jump into the umpteenth and latest adaptation with a clean slate? Directed by Joe Wright (2011's thematically rich, exhilarating "Hanna"), working from a script by Tom Stoppard (one half of the Oscar-winning pair behind "Shakespeare in Love"), this "Anna Karenina" is carried out with a highly stylized, theatrical, and radically audacious approach that ends up paying off. There is initial trepidation with films that frame stories in self-conscious artifice, making it nigh impossible to get wrapped up in the story, but for the most part, this isn't one of those cases.
With the visual opulence of Wright's "Pride & Prejudice" and "Atonement" in concert with the impressively orchestrated (often one-take) choreography of "Russian Ark," the film is staged as if it were a play, literally beginning on a playhouse stage. The proscenium curtains open to a title card, setting the scene in Imperial Russia, 1874, followed by scenery changes, stagehands bringing in set-pieces, actors walking in the wings and up in the rafters, and everything falling into place with fluid movement. Even then, the story isn't always confined to the stage (i.e. ballrooms and opera houses), opening up the scope to a snow-covered countryside and a field of golden wheat. Whether or not this conceit —you could call it a gimmick—serves any underlying subtext or motivation to the story never crystallizes, but it sure looks ravishing and makes for an intriguing technical feat.
If your high school or college professors were cruel, you may know the story. Upon first meeting high-society woman Anna (Keira Knightley), she is pampered, living in St. Petersburg with statesman Alexei Karenin (Jude Law) and their son Serozha (Oskar McNamara) whom Anna adores. Getting off the train in Moscow to tend to the marital problems of her happily philandering brother, Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen), she catches the eye of a young, dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Stoppard's screenplay deftly counterbalances the scandalous affair with a parallel love story: Oblonsky's sister-in-law, Kitty (Alicia Vikander), rejects the marriage proposal of landowner Levin (Domhall Gleeson) because she fancies Vronsky. But if you didn't already know, Anna and Vronsky impulsively fall into a torrid, forbidden love affair that threatens her social standing, possession of her son, and leaves her largely excommunicated from society, especially fan-fluttering ladies who stab her with disapproving looks. It's so tragic she could just kill herself.
With the trappings of a fussy, stodgy period drama, "Anna Karenina" is neither of these things from Wright's unconventional staging, the camera constantly roving and the pace pretty breakneck, especially in the first half. We're left to just admire the stylistic choices and the filmmaking process, while the characters are placed at a distance. Vast emotional involvement is the central conundrum here, preventing one from fully feeling the tragedy that befalls Anna by the end of this gloriously melodramatic Russian epic. But it's tricky: are we actually supposed to sympathize with Anna's indiscretion or just take it as her own ruin? After all, she's not conflicted, she's just in love, so Anna has made her own bed and now has to sleep in it, er, jump in front of a train. Perhaps it's just one of the risks of page-to-screen translations, missing the nuances and complex emotions of the source, or it's merely the intent of Tolstoy's novel.
Knightley (Wright's simpatico muse) is in her depth here as the fallen heroine. As written on the page, Anna is so selfish and needy, a character too complicated to fully understand and connect with on an emotional level, and Knightley does that quite well with any forced likability. Less boyish than the casting would seem (the twirly mustache certainly helps), the strapping, handsome Taylor-Johnson is both arrogant and vulnerable as "the murderer of her happiness," also creating an erotic passion with his co-star. Garnering most audience empathy is a balding Law, as the selfless, cuckolded husband, in a devastating, understated performance. His portrayal of Karenin is so selfless that, once figuring out her infidelity, he never strikes her and, when asked to hold hands with Anna's lover over her death bed, he doesn't strike him either. Supporting these three is a reliable who's who cast of British character actors, including Macfadyen as Oblonsky, gliding and twirling into his jackets as if he were in a musical with a Falstaffian humor; Macdonald, as Oblonsky's long-suffering wife Dolly; Olivia Williams, as Vronsky's countess mother; Emily Watson, as a disapproving countess; and Shirley Henderson in one climactic scene.
If Wright's single, five-minute tracking shot on the beach of Dunkirk in "Atonement" inspired awe, the pivotal ball scene, where Anna and Vronsky's dance together creates quite the stir, is dizzying, sweeping cinematic magic. There's also a breathless, masterfully cut horse race in which Karenin's suspicions of his unfaithful wife are confirmed. Even the actors freeze in time a couple of times, making us more aware of the play-like gimmick. Reservations aside, "Anna Karenina" is an entertainingly alive take on the dusty classic, with experimental ambition and filmmaking ingenuity swirling throughout and making the film something to appreciate a great deal.
129 min., rated R.
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In a reversal of its usual "open borders" globalist-friendly policy, The Independent, a former newspaper that now ekes out a precarious living on the internet, has called for a US immigration policy based on the race and ethnicity of Nobel Prize Winners.
In an article called "All six of America's 2016 Nobel Prize winners are immigrants," writer Adam Lusher, who survived a weird form of cancer some years ago, cunningly makes the case for an immigration system that discriminates in favour of the higher-achieving Nobel-winning races, while pretending to be "open borders" boilerplate:
"Things may just have got a little awkward for politicians engaging in anti-immigrant rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic: all six of America's 2016 Nobel Prize winners are immigrants, and some of the laureates themselves have started pointing this out.
With Donald Trump basing a large part of his presidential campaign on anti-immigrant feeling, and with calls for immigration controls dominating the Brexit debate, Sir J Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born, naturalised American citizen and 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize winner, has told a US website: "I think the United States is what it is today largely because of open borders."
The article, which Lusher sneaked past the paper's PC editors, quotes extensively from an interview with Stoddart, who, intelligent readers will note, is not from some shit-tier Third World country like Mexico or Somalia, but actually from Scotland, an entirely White country that has played a leading role in shaping American history through the high intellect and energy of its emigrants, including the current President's own mother.
Stoddart, while espousing the default Leftism that one needs to survive in academia these days, also manages to make clear his admiration for German scientists, many of whom worked for Hitler in the past, and his love for a stronger union between the UK and Germany, even going so far as to wish that he was German:
"I'm kind of exasperated with the level of politics in this country and my old country," he added. "I would be excited about voting if I was in Germany."
The article quotes data compiled by Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy that found 40% of Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine, and physics since 2000 were won by immigrants from a handful of White or East Asian populations. These included Japanese, Canadians, Germans, Austrian, Jews, and White South Africans.
The article is a clear call to limit immigration from countries that perform badly at the Nobel prize, such as most Latin American countries, all Middle Eastern countries (except Israel), all Sub-Saharan countries (except Whites from South Africa), and many South Asian countries. As such it is probably the most racist article to ever appear in The Independent.


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That Murray Girl: The Story of Madeline Murray Matthews (Minnesota)
Marys mothers life story. She came on the orphan trains and was adopted by farm people. She lived a hard live there and then moved to St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she went to college and became an insurance saleswoman. She raised her children after her husband died, during a time when women DID NOT work outside the home.
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Michigan Fall Events & Attractions
Bonadeo Farms Full Moon Manor & Field of Screams
Located in Highland Township
Full Moon Manor - Haunted House: Everything that frightens you about the dark. You will be scared out of your wits. Enjoy a frightening tour of our haunted house. This building is often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were Read More
Haunted Farm of Terror
Located in Lenox
Haunted Hayride, Haunted House, Zombie Assault Live Zombie Shoot & Merchandise. Concessions & Beverages. The Haunted Farm of Terror brings your worst nightmares to life on the eerie 20 acre land of the dead. Watch horror movies on the 30ft big screen around a bon fire. Take a shot at the living Read More
Terrorfied Forest
Located in Pinckney
The Terrorfied Forest is a 30 acre attraction that takes you deep into darkness. Step into your nightmares and see what is lurking in the woods. Navigate your way through heart pounding fright as creatures of the night come out to play. Our 40 plus minute walk of over 1 mile of terror is sure to Read More
Scarefest Scream Park
Located in Lenox Township
Get ready to run for the hills at Scarefest Scream Park! Thise year's lineup features four attractions: Castle of the Dead Haunted House, Carnival of the Dead Forest Walk, Terror Zone Maze, and the Hayride of Doom! While you wait hang out in the heated bar tent with entertainment, beer, wine, food, Read More
Shawhaven Haunted Farm
Located in Mason
Fear surrounds the Farm. All 140 acres have been lost onto a haze of despair, since the dark years when the crops and animals were lost to a devastating invasion of bugs. Fear had engulfed all the grounds. Local people have tried to face their fears on the Wagons of Fear. Some exit safely and Read More
Code Breakers Escape & Puzzle Rooms
Located in Midland
Wyandotte Jaycees Present: Kindred Haunted House
Located in Wyandotte
Kindred Haunted House presented by the Wyandotte Jaycees! Welcome to the family. Read More
DarkSyde Acres Haunted House
Located in Jonesville
Closed today. Next open 9/15/18
Haunted House and Halloween Attractions: Darksyde Acres Haunted House and Halloween Attractions, located in Jonesville, Michigan, just off U.S.12. With multiple Haunted Houses and Attractions this Halloween Season, there is something for the whole family. From Extreme Haunts to kid friendly Hay Read More
The Edson Incident
Located in Bay City
The Edson Incident is a premier haunted attraction aboard the mighty USS Edson in Bay City, Michigan. Those brave enough to enter will twist and climb their way through 5 levels of the Vietnam era U.S. Navy Destroyer with each turn and stairway leading to more terrifying effects of a military Read More
Slaughterhouse Adventure & Grand River Corn Maze
Located in Fowlerville
Welcome to the SlaughterHouse of Bones This year we've gone all out to create the sickest, most twisted and unnervingly funny haunted house we've ever done. You'll meet up with some of the most brazenly twisted characters that have given you nightmares throughout the years. As you cautiously Read More
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A Memoir
"Mr. McCourt, you're lucky," a student once told him. "You had that miserable childhood, so you have something to write about." He also had something to teach about. McCourt described his hardscrabble Irish childhood and Americanization in the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela's Ashes (1996) and 'Tis (1999); here he chronicles his 30 years teaching English in New York's public schools, which transformed him from an insecure educator into an innovative, unconventional role model. Relating his own life stories to those of Tom Sawyer and Holden Caulfield, McCourt encouraged students to do the same: they wrote "excuse notes" from Adam and Eve to God and performed cookbook-recipe recitals. Teacher Man chronicles the joys, challenges, and growth McCourt experienced as he came to understand his students—and himself.
Scribner. 272 pages. $26. ISBN: 0743243773
Dallas Morning News
"One way [to survive a teaching career] was by telling poignant, often amusing stories about his struggles growing up, both to hold students' attention and to inspire them to open up. … Mr. McCourt's fans, along with every teacher in America, will love this book." Elizabeth Bennett
Los Angeles Times
"Teacher Man is, in fact, the best book in the trilogy, an enthralling work of autobiographical storytelling. … There is a more self-scrutiny in this book than in McCourt's previous ones, but his literary technique is still prone to comic schtick and manic stream-of-consciousness reveries, developing insights through controlled irony." Phillip Lopate
"Happily, this book lacks the uncomplicated moments of pedagogical triumph we've become accustomed to through movies like Stand and Deliver. … Teacher Man is a rare and privileged glimpse of the classroom; few people with McCourt's teaching experience also possess his story-telling gifts, so we almost never see the school day so perceptively, often uncomfortably, rendered." Liza Featherstone
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Teacher Man is a fascinating book, an insider's look at education, an ultimately optimistic book about possibility for both teachers and students." Curt Schleier
USA Today
"The last 50 pages of Frank McCourt's third memoir, Teacher Man … is as good as writing gets about teaching and learning and finding yourself through writing. … One life, no matter how miserable or redemptive, is a lot to hang three books on." Bob Minzesheimer
Washington Post
"But what McCourt wants more than respect, more even than seeing his students learn to read more analytically and write more persuasively, is for them to like him. … As deeply as I abhor the test-driven atmosphere that's turning schools into reenactments of Hard Times, I couldn't shake my skepticism of the antics that McCourt celebrates." Ron Charles
Christian Science Monitor
"After so many pages of McCourt's sometimes inexplicable self-loathing, I found myself, begrudgingly, disliking him nearly as much as he seems to have disliked himself." TERESA MÉndez
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"Alas, McCourt has already poured his best childhood material into Angela's Ashes, so here, he serves up the dregs. … What results is a book that fails as both an account of McCourt's teaching and of his life." Brendan Halpin
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The pathos McCourt created in his first two memoirs just may be wearing thin. While some critics thought Teacher Man focused, fresh, and exciting, others saw a self-deprecating author at work, his prose littered with clichés. No doubt Teacher Man is darkly entertaining: what other teacher during class would ask children to write suicide notes or describe their own murderous thoughts? But too many anecdotes about McCourt's childhood, sexual adventures, and marriage (all found in his previous books) often disembody his poignant, life-learning teaching experiences from their context. Still, the memoir rings true for teachers in its depictions of daily classroom trials, and McCourt's honesty and storytelling gifts remain unsurpassed.


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ANCHORAGE - Charges of second-degree murder and robbery have been dismissed against one of two defendants in a Barrow homicide.
But prosecutors have recharged Dominick Lozano, 19, with the lesser offenses of manslaughter and second-degree robbery, his lawyer said.
Attorney Tom Temple of Fairbanks said there is no evidence of his client's involvement.
"I think it's a matter of saving face, of cleaning egg off face, is a better way of putting it," Temple said of the new charges.
Barrow district attorney Sara Simpson did not return a phone call Thursday afternoon.
Lozano is charged in the death Nov. 17 of Sangkhom "Sam" Promdongloi, a Barrow taxi driver.
North Slope police in December arrested Lozano and Phillip G. Burnell, 20.
Promdongloi, 33, a native of Thailand, was found slumped over outside his car near an apartment building.
Police found a .44-caliber handgun believed to have been used in the shooting under Burnell's mattress at his home in Barrow.
Temple, a former prosecutor in Barrow, said there are flaws in the case against Lozano.
"Essentially, it appears that Dominick was indicted solely on rumors and town gossip," he said.
A North Slope police sergeant testified to the grand jury that a witness, Romelito Nobleza, had said Lozano and Burnell visited him at his home shortly after the crime.
The officer attributed statements to Nobleza that Nobleza did not make, Temple said. The sergeant relayed the information to the grand jury even though Nobleza was available to testify, Temple said.
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DIOCESE OF EASTERN AMERICA AND NEW YORK: October 17, 2006
The Rector of St John the Baptist Cathedral Participates in a Kosovo Delegation to Moscow
From October 9-14, 2006, Bishop Artemje of Rasko-Prizren, the spiritual leader of the Kosovo Serbs, traveled to Russia. The delegation accompanying His Grace consisted of seven persons, including Protopriest Victor Potapov, Rector of St John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC.
The aim of the visit was to appeal to the people and to the government representatives of Russia with an account of present-day Kosovo. At a press conference hosted by Interfax News Agency, Bishop Artemje gave an account of current events in Kosovo and Metochija. He reported that over the last seven years, 250,000 Serbs have been driven out of Kosovo, and 1,300 killed. Approximately the same number have gone missing. Tens of thousands of homes were destroyed, hundreds of villages razed to the ground, more than 150 churches and monasteries bulldozed. Meanwhile, some 400 mosques have been built on the sites of the destroyed churches with funds provided by the countries of the Near East and the Persian Gulf. Among the Kosovo Albanians "more and more Wahhabists and proponents of the the Jihad are appearing," stated the hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, who thinks that their aim is "the expulsion of the Serbian Christian population and the destruction of all signs of Orthodoxy, and the creation of a second Albanian Muslim state."
An independent Kosovo threatens not only the Balkans, but all of Europe. "Over the past seven years, under international control, Kosovo has become a European 'black hole,'" with the trade of narcotics, arms and slaves. The independent Kosovo has become a base for extremists and a "white Al-Qaeda throughout Europe," explained the leader of the Kosovan Serbs.
Bishop Artemje made this trip to Russia after visiting the USA, where His Grace defended the interests of the Serb minority in Kosovo. He achieved a decision by the Security Council of the United Nations to delay the resolution on the status of Kosovo until the end of next year, originally scheduled to be determined at the end of 2006.
During each of his presentations in Moscow, Bishop Artemje expressed the position of the Serbian people on the impossibility of separating Kosovo from Serbia: "Kosovo is the spiritual heartland of Serbia, of her spiritual culture, of her state. Serbia cannot exist without Kosovo, just as a person cannot live without a heart."
"We cannot limit ourselves to prayer alone. We must do everything in our power, for without our efforts, the Lord will give us nothing. We are called upon to be servants and helpers of God," said Bishop Artemje.
The delegation's trip to Moscow became possible to a great degree through the help of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, whose members helped draft the program for the delegates and drew the attention of the mass media in Russia to the plight of the Orthodox Serbs of Kosovo.
During the Interfax press conference, Fr Victor expressed satisfaction that the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia were able to cooperate in the area of common support for Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo.
"Our mission today (the defense of Serbian Orthodox communities in Kosovo), is the joint task of the two branches of the Russian Orthodox Church," said Fr Victor at the Moscow press conference held on October 12.
The clergyman said that it was easy to make arrangements for the visit of the delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church to Russia in part thanks to the fact that the process of reconciliation between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Abroad "is successfully approaching its conclusion."
"The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia established itself in Serbia, a country that showed hospitality to the many Russian emigres of the 1920's… And the Russian Orthodox Church always had friendly relations with the Serbian Church," noted Fr Victor.
In addition to participating in the press conference, Fr Victor spoke with other press agencies and gave interviews to Golos Rossii ["Voice of Russia"] and Grad Petrov ["City of Peter"] radio, and spoke live on Radonezh.


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The Goonies is by far one of our favorite family movies and we couldn't make a trip to the coast of Oregon without paying homage to the fabulous adventure of Mikey and his friends.
After watching The Goonies movie we headed to the Oregon Film Museum which celebrates the many movies filmed in Oregon. The museum is located in the old Astoria jail which was used for the jail break scene in The Goonies. The kids got a huge kick out of the many props displayed at the museum including the Fratellis' Jeep and Data's jacket.
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From the film museum we headed to Cannon Beach and Ecola State Park where many scenes from The Goonies were filmed. First we headed to the beach to view Haystack Rock which appears in several scenes of the movie. From there we took the road to Ecola State Park where the bicycle scene in the movie was filmed. The view from Ecola State Park is absolutely gorgeous and the kids had a blast exploring the park.
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