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Yes, I may be a lying pervert – according to the Westboro Baptist Church, but that hasn't stopped me from playing St. Louis, and my lies and perversity get me invited to better parties frankly, so let's just say that I am in it to win it and I am what I am and that is it.
We can make fun of the scary idiots of the "god hates fags" variety forever and never tire of it, but honestly it makes me sad. God doesn't hate fags. God would never use those words, because – God hates HATE.
I was raised religious, known God for longer than anyone, and I say he isn't bothered by homosexuality. He is the maker and the myth and the mind of all of it, and so why would he be against what is his own creation?
I see these poor children, holding up signs with odd slurs and even odder spelling and I think – how terrible – these full grown bullies are forcing their children into a life of hatred and homophobia and poor syntax. Give these kids a chance. They're just kids. Wait til they're older and start to hate in earnest. All the rage shoved into them before they could even walk and talk will come right back up and there will be hell to pay.
You can't warn people about hatred I guess. They will hate what they will hate and there isn't any logical or humane explanation for any of it.
One of my television heroes, Louis Theroux, brilliant son of brilliant Paul, did a documentary where he bravely went and actually lived with the Fred Phelps clan, learned all the youngster's names, watched distant and respectful as they continued their legally questionable and publicity-starved goofball protests. He questioned their motives but was also strangely and warmly welcomed into their homes. He sat at their table and watched them through his British American glasses and he didn't change anyone's mind but he brought cameras in to see that what was mostly happening is that the children were doing most of the work, making and carrying hate filled signs before they could even really read.
How about "god hates child exploitation"? wouldn't that be more appropriate?
Anyway, they say they will be protesting my show in St. Louis, the venerable and historic city that I haven't been to in years. I am celebrating my return to the arch by timing it perfectly with this summer's exciting gay pride festivities, and don't think for a second that their protests will put even the slightest damper on our party.

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"Zero Dark Thirty" landed this week in the United Kingdom, where the Kathryn Bigelow drama continued to stir debate over its depiction of the use of torture in the CIA's decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.
As they have in the U.S., some critics accused the filmmakers of implying that enhanced interrogation techniques could be a useful form of intelligence gathering, while others believed that Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were more ambiguous in their portrayal of torture's efficacy.
Most reviewers were floored by the propulsive storyline, the performance of star Jessica Chastain and the gripping dramatization of the raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
In the Evening Standard, David Sexton argues that the film is ambivalent about waterboarding and other brutal methods, noting that a key piece of information is only discovered after interrogators ply a detainee with food and kindness.
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"This has proved offensive to those who, to avoid having to accept there may be negative consequences from taking the moral high ground, prefer to believe that torture must always be ineffective as well as wrong," Sexton writes. "Some of these critics — most notably nitwit Naomi Wolf, who has tastefully compared Bigelow to Leni Riefensthal and dubbed her 'torture's handmaiden' — have claimed the film's disturbing representation of torture amounts to a blithe commendation of the practice, not really a possible interpretation for those who have actually seen the movie."
In a four-star review, Sexton went on to hail "Zero Dark Thirty" as "terrifically good" and said the depiction of the raid was a "masterclass in action filmmaking."
In The Independent, Anthony Quinn praised the film for avoiding simplistic conclusions about America's controversial interrogation methods.
"The waterboarding, the beatings, the dog collars, all the stuff you've heard about is here, and perhaps some you haven't — the spectacle of a man being forced inside a small wooden box is as harrowing as any," Quinn writes. "Is this an abhorrent crime? Would the information be impossible to gain by other means? The film isn't saying either way; it is asking us to make up our own minds."
Quinn also argued that the film is more effective because it was directed by a woman and that because of her gender, Bigelow has a less "gung-ho" relationship to violence than a Ridley Scott or Michael Mann might bring to the same material (he may not have seen "Point Break")
Robbie Collins maintains in his review of the film in the Telegraph that Bigelow and Boal leave it to audiences to decide whether torture is right or wrong.
"These scenes are every bit as hellish to watch as they should be, and Bigelow's genius is to make them feel at once gratuitous and necessary," Collins writes.
He also praised the film for eschewing jingoism and for having the courage to end on a deflated note.
"Where, then, does Zero Dark Thirty leave us?" Collins asks. "In the same place it leaves Maya: with our thirst for justice quenched, but our sense of rightness shaken. "Where do you want to go?" a pilot asks her, and she starts shedding tear after tear. This, finally, is what victory looks like, and its likeness to defeat is terrifying."
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian was more unsettled by the film's relationship with torture and seemed to wish it had taken a firmer position.
"There is nothing in Zero Dark Thirty comparable to Gavin Hood's soul-searching 2007 movie, Rendition, in which Jake Gyllenhaal's CIA agent denounces waterboarding information as valueless; he quotes Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and says torture victims 'speak upon the rack,/ Where men enforced do speak anything,'" Bradshaw writes. "I can well believe that, but for me the most sinister depiction of torture is non-depiction. Many Hollywood movies about the war on terror have managed to ignore the subject, implying non-existence. Despite its fence-sitting, I prefer Bigelow's account."
Bradshaw was also less enamored of the film on an artistic level, writing that "It is well made, with a relentless, dour drumbeat of tension and a great final sequence, but nowhere near as good as the first season of Homeland."
Empire Magazine's Kim Newman mostly skirted the political debate surrounding "Zero Dark Thirty," but was ecstatic about Bigelow's directing, the film's pacing and star turns.
"Like Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, it's a relatively new kind of American patriotic war movie, counterprogramming jaded paranoid fantasies like the Bourne movies or the liberal horror stories (Redacted, Rendition, In The Valley Of Elah, Green Zone etc.) thrown up by the War On Terror," Newman writes. "It's measured, seething with suppressed emotion, unafraid of slow stretches and false trails, snapping shut like a mantrap when blood is shed. If it grips in a more intellectual, journalistic manner than its Oscar-winning predecessor, it's because Chastain's character is necessarily absent during the climax — though she has a terrific post-traumatic outburst when the case is closed."


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Darien's Bognar scores three touchdowns in rout of Danbury
DARIEN -- When a football team scores 27 points on its first five possessions, it's usually a recipe for success, and Darien's 41-6 shellacking of Danbury on Saturday at Darien High School was certainly no exception.
Darien's Christian Bognar provided the spark for the Blue Wave offense, as the senior fullback accounted for Darien's first three touchdowns on runs of 13, 1 and 12 yards, respectively.
"Three touchdowns is a first for me, so it felt really good. My line really stepped up for me, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have as much yards as I did," said Bognar, who carried the ball 19 times for 148 yards. "Last week we had a really tough loss (35-28 against St. Joseph in double overtime), and we came out of the tunnel every day for practice and gave 110 percent every play."
Bognar had a lot of help from the Blue Wave offensive line, which consistently won the battle in the trenches and opened gaping holes for Bognar and the rest of the Darien ground game.
"They controlled (the line), they pushed us, they did whatever they wanted and they were a much better team than we were," Danbury coach Dan Donovan said. "We're going to go back to work. We don't quit. We're going to go back, we're going to work and we're going to try to win the next one."
After Darien missed a 32-yard field goal on its opening possession and Danbury punted, the Blue Wave went 57 yards in five plays, capped by Bognar's first score and a 6-0 lead after the extra point was blocked by Danbury's Kolyn Pollard.
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Danbury began to put together a promising drive on its next possession, but Darien's Theo Frelinghuysen intercepted Danbury's Anferny Ith. Frelinghuysen picked off the pass at the Blue Wave 22, but a holding call on the return pushed Darien back to its 12.
What followed was an 88-yard drive in 14 plays, as Bognar scored from one yard out. Quarterback Henry Baldwin hit Jackson Whiting for the two-point conversion and a 14-0 advantage.
Darien's Jay Harrison forced a Danbury fumble on the ensuing kickoff which was recovered by Brian Wiegand. Four plays later, Bognar's third touchdown put Darien in front 20-0.
"I call him the `wild boar.' He's low and quick and tough to bring down, and he's a nice weapon to have," Darien coach Rob Trifone said of Bognar. "I wouldn't want to tackle him."
After a Danbury three-and-out, Darien went 42 yards on four Henry Baldwin passes, including a six-yard touchdown strike to James Bennett for a 27-0 lead, which was also the score at halftime.
"I thought it was very important that we established the line of scrimmage early on and controlled their quarterback," Trifone said. "I don't think our team walked away from last week with any confidence loss; they were just angry at themselves that they missed an opportunity."
In the second half, an interception by Whiting killed another Danbury drive, and the Blue Wave would eventually increase their lead to 34-0 on a 40-yard touchdown pass from Baldwin to Ian Vanderhorn. Vanderhorn broke out of a tackle attempt and won the footrace to pay dirt.
With time winding down in the third quarter, Baldwin hit Kyle Gifford for a 10-yard touchdown, and the Darien substitutes closed out the game.
Danbury avoided the shutout one play after Darien had pinned the Hatters on their own 12 with a booming punt by C.J. Raia, as Danbury running back Akim Moffett took a handoff up the middle, broke to his left and sprinted down the sidelines for an 88-yard touchdown run.
"This was bounce-back week and the next two weeks we're on the road at night," Trifone said. "Trumbull and Wilton are never easy on the road, so we can't look past any of those teams."
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DARIEN 41, Danbury 6
DAR--Christian Bognar, 13 run (PAT blocked)
DAR--Bognar, 1 run (Henry Baldwin pass to Jackson Whiting)
DAR--Bognar, 12 run (PAT no good)
DAR--James Bennett 6 pass from Henry Baldwin (C.J. Raia kick)
DAR--Ian Vanderhorn 40 pass from Baldwin (Daly Hebert kick)
DAR--Kyle Gifford 10 pass from Baldwin (Raia kick)
DAN--Akim Moffett, 81 run (Anferny Ith kick)
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Friday, March 11, 2011; 2:33 PM
LOS CABOS, Mexico -- Heavy swells have been rolling through the port and marinas of the Mexico's Baja California resort of Cabo San Lucas. Some are several feet (more than a meter) high, but no damage has been reported.
The Mexican navy says it had detected offshore swells of 70 centimeters (2 1/3 feet) related to the tsunami spawned by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan.
The swells appeared at least twice that high as they rocked boats in the harbor, but they have not topped the seawalls at marinas in Los Cabos.
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Like a marathoner at the finish line, China seems whipped. It struggled two decades to host the Olympics that open in three weeks. It has spent about $50 billion, pumped up its athletes, spiffed up Beijing, and fended off calls for a boycott. Now it may wonder if the effort will be worth it.
The Games themselves will, of course, be the world's main focus for two weeks after the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies. And thousands of athletes will fulfill once again the purpose of the modern Olympics, as stated by founder Pierre de Coubertin: "to bring together in a radiant union all the qualities which guide mankind to perfection."
But these Olympics also came with two political expectations, both of which are not even close to earning a medal.
One is human rights in China. The International Olympic Committee, in awarding the Games seven years ago, pointed to the Communist Party's record in suppressing dissent and said it expected that "openness, progress, and development in many areas will be such that the situation will be improved." The IOC also said athletes have "an absolute right" during the Games to speak out. The party itself did not publicly agree to improve its record, but the head of China's bidding team did say the Beijing Games would "benefit the further development of our human rights cause."
If anything, China's human rights record has worsened, as seen clearly during this spring's crackdown on Tibet's Buddhist monks. Last year, the number of arrests for "endangering state security" was at their highest since 2000.
And China's hand in world atrocities, such as Darfur and Zimbabwe, has also worsened. Steven Spielberg quit as artistic adviser for the Olympic ceremonies over China's backing of Sudan.
Why would China do this? These Olympics may simply serve as a pretext for the party to keep an authoritarian hold over 1.3 billion Chinese, who are increasingly revolting against corrupt rule. Not only do the Olympics justify crackdowns, but Chinese leaders have shown again and again that they will use foreign protests to whip up nationalist pride.
Those actions undercut the second expectation of these Olympics: to celebrate China's economic progress and its emergence as a power.
China's leaders may have thought the Beijing Olympics would serve the same purpose as the 1964 Games did for Japan: a coming-out party. Instead, the many protests, such as the interruptions of the torch relay, and the strong possibility of protests in Beijing during the Games, are likely to lower the PR boost.
The 2008 Olympics could end up like the 1936 Berlin Games, in which Hitler tried to promote Nazi (and Aryan) superiority, only to have American blacks, such as Jesse Owens, win track events. But these Games may not be the PR disaster of the 1980 Moscow Games that were widely boycotted after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were overturned within years after their Games. A better model for China would be the 1988 Seoul Games. During the run-up to those Olympics, the South Korean people used the coming event to rise up and force an end to a dictatorship. Now that was an example of "qualities which guide mankind to perfection."


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For most people, being stung by a nettle is an experience that's quite difficult to forget. Much of the difficulty springs from the burning sensation, the hives, and the blisters that often result from a nettle sting. Stinging nettles are quite popular—thriving in places all across the globe and blooming every year—that it's quite impossible to be unfamiliar with this invasive plant.
Nettle, more popularly known as the stinging nettle, is a native shrub that belongs to genus Urtica that that thrives in the colder regions of Europe and Asia. True to its name, the leaves and stems of stinging nettles are known to release natural chemicals that irritate the skin.
Despite its rather infamous reputation, stinging nettles has long been part of traditional herbal medicine. For centuries, stinging nettles have been brewed into medicinal tea that naturally contains profuse amounts of biologically active compounds that improves general health.
Nettle Tea as Traditional Medicine
For hundreds of years, stinging nettles have been used in traditional herbal medicine. Nettle tea is known to be a natural curative for arthritis and gout, for anemia, and urinary discomfort. Nettles have also been used as a topical agent in treating eczema, insect bites, skin allergies and even painful muscles.
But about the health benefits of stinging nettle tea?
The root and leaves of stinging nettles possess various biologically active compounds. These include flavonoids such as quercetin which possesses profound antioxidant properties. Antioxidants counteract free radicals that result from oxidative stress. Without sufficient antioxidant presence in the body, free radicals often prove to be detrimental to cellular membranes and DNA.
Nettles also possess a number of healthy compounds. Beta-sitosterol, for instance, found in nettles helps your heart by lowering dietary fats levels in your blood.
Harvesting Stinging Nettles
Stinging nettles are called as such for good reason. A momentary brush with any part of the plant will cause your skin a mildly painful irritation that can last for a couple of hours. It is imperative that you wear gloves partnered with long-sleeved tops and long pants when harvesting nettles. It is best to use a pair of garden clippers or sharp enough scissors to cut the top two bracts of nettle leaves. This way, you still allow for the rest of the nettle plant to regenerate.
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Because of its relevant medicinal properties that treat various skin conditions, people are taking interest in learning how to make organic nettle tea recipe for acne.
A fresh cup of nettle tea requires about a cupful of fresh nettles leaves. First, place the nettle leaves you have gathered into a container— a pot or a kettle would be ideal. It best to add two cups of water for every cup of nettle leaves. Once done, you just bring the water to a boil.
Depending on your preferred taste, you can enjoy a stronger nettle flavor by letting the mixture steep longer. Should you want a milder flavor, you just simply add more water. Once the water has boiled, reduce heat and let simmer for a few minutes.
Pour through a small strainer and you have yourself a fresh cup of nettle tea to drink— and a brimful of organic nettle leaf tea benefits. For an added dash of sweetness, you might add a dash of sugar or honey.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON Breaks House Record in Des Moines
THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house record in Des Moines for the week ending February 3, 2013. The show broke the record at the Des Moines Civic Center grossing $1,563,897.00. THE BOOK OF MORMON breaks the record, previously set by WICKED in 2009.
The First National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON opens at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis Tuesday, February 5. The production continues to St. Louis, Rochester, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston, Toronto, Cleveland and Washington, DC in the 2012-2013 season.
THE BOOK OF MORMON features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. The production is choreographed by Casey Nicholaw and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker.
THE BOOK OF MORMON is the winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone), Best Book (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone), Best Direction (Casey Nicholaw, Trey Parker), Best Featured Actress (Nikki M. James), Best Scenic Design (Scott Pask), Best Lighting Design (Brian MacDevitt), Best Sound Design (Brian Ronan) and Best Orchestrations (Larry Hochman, Stephen Oremus); the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical; five Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical; the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album; four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Musical, and the Drama League Award for Best Musical.
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A Coast Guard Officer was indicted today by a federal grand jury for obstructing the investigation into his authorization of discharge of 2000 gallons of bilge wastes into the Honolulu Harbor.
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HONOLULU, HI. -- A Coast Guard Officer was indicted today by a federal grand jury for obstructing the investigation into his authorization of discharge of 2000 gallons of bilge wastes into the Honolulu Harbor.
The accused, David G. Williams, a Chief Warrant Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard was the Main Propulsion Assistant for the Coast Guard Cutter RUSH.
Williams was charged with two counts: one count of obstruction of justice and one count of making a false statement. Williams oversaw the maintenance of the main diesel engines and other machinery in the engine room for the Coast Guard Cutter RUSH, a 378 foot long high-endurance cutter stationed in Honolulu.
"This indictment stands as notice that the Department of Justice will enforce the nation's environmental laws in an even-handed and thorough manner," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Tenpas.
According to the indictment, on or about March 8, 2006, Williams authorized the direct discharge of bilge wastes into Honolulu Harbor. The Engineering Department personnel engaged in an unusual and abnormal operation and configuration of engine room equipment to pump bilge wastes from the aft bilge overboard into Honolulu Harbor, thereby bypassing an "oily water separator" system. The system is a pollution prevention control device used by high endurance Coast Guard cutters like the RUSH to manage accumulations of bilge wastes while underway at sea. The system collects, stores, and processes wastes to separate the water from the oil and other wastes.
On or about March 13, 2006, the State of Hawaii Department of Health received an anonymous complaint stating that U.S. Coast Guard Cutter RUSH crew members were ordered to pump approximately 2,000 gallons of bilge waste into Honolulu Harbor. On May 1, 2006, investigators from the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received confirmation from Main Propulsion Division personnel who personally participated that bilge wastes had indeed been discharged through the deep sink and into Honolulu Harbor. CGIS investigators obtained various documents from the RUSH, including engineering and ship's logs, tank level sounding sheets, and a pneumatic pump.
According to the indictment, when interviewed by investigators from the CGIS and EPA, Williams denied authorizing personnel to discharge bilge waste to the deep sink and stated that he was not aware of the pumping of bilge wastes to bypass the ship's OWS system.
The charges set forth in an indictment are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. If convicted Williams could face 5 years in prison on each count.
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One of the oldest contested file-sharing cases has come to an abrupt and unexpected end. In a motion filed last month, but only uncovered today by Ray Beckerman, the RIAA has dismissed a two-year-old lawsuit filed against Joan Cassin. The dismissal is without prejudice, which means the RIAA could sue Cassin once again, but Cassin's attorney would likely argue that the label's recent dismissal is a final adjudication on the merits; more on that below.
Cassin was sued in April 2006 for copyright infringement. The boilerplate complaint used by the RIAA at the time is light on the details, but the exhibits attached to the filing show that MediaSentry detected a user with the handle omc@KaZaA sharing 406 files on KaZaA, including tracks from Madonna, Bob Seger, Dixie Chicks, and Sade.
Instead of filing an answer, Cassin's attorney (who works at the same law firm as Beckerman) filed a motion to dismiss in early 2007. One of the issues raised in the motion was the now-well-known argument that merely making a file available over a P2P network constitutes distribution. Indeed, Warner v. Cassin looked as though it would be one of the first cases where the issue would be argued in court.
Instead, the oral arguments never took place, and in the months since, a handful of rulings have come down on the making-available argument. The first, in Elektra v. Barker, largely went the RIAA's way, as a judge said that offering copyright music on a P2P network infringed on the label's publication right spelled out in the Copyright Act.
Subsequent rulings, however, have gone the other way. In early April, a federal judge in Massachusetts quashed an RIAA subpoena seeking the identities of Boston University students suspected of copyright infringement. "Merely because the defendant has 'completed all the steps necessary for distribution' does not necessarily mean that a distribution has actually occurred," wrote Judge Nancy Gertner in her ruling. "As noted above, merely exposing music files to the Internet is not copyright infringement."
And in Atlantic v. Howell, a case where the defendants are representing themselves, a judge denied the label's motion for summary judgment, ruling that the label had not proven that any actual distribution had taken place.
Beckerman told Ars that he suspects that the RIAA may have been concerned about the impact of those recent rulings on Warner v. Cassin. "They were afraid of [Warner v. Cassin] Judge Robinson deciding the case, because his would be the most well-informed decision so far."
The RIAA rarely reveals the particulars of why it dismisses individual cases, and has not yet given Ars its perspective on the case. Historically, the group has walked away from cases where there's significant doubt that it would prevail, and it may have concluded that this lawsuit fell into that category. Since the case was dismissed without prejudice, the RIAA could refile it, but Beckerman believes that under federal court rules, which count the second dismissal of the same case as an "adjudication on the merits," Cassin should be considered the prevailing party. Under his reasoning, the first case was the filing and dismissal of a John Doe lawsuit for the sole purposes of obtaining Cassin's identity from the ISP.


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That happened yesterday after Edge reported the following from a "source with first-hand experience" with Microsoft's next unnamed console:
"It is believed that games purchased on disc will ship with activation codes, and will have no value beyond the initial user."
If true, this would effectively kill used games sales for the console, and the mere mention of that fact caused GameStop's shares to drop as reported yesterday by our own Eric Savitz.
I'm not here to speculate on whether Edge's source is reliable, but I will say I'm not going to believe anything I hear about the next generation of consoles unless it's coming directly from the companies themselves. Rather, I want to talk about why this news item cannot be true, at least by the time the console is ready for public release.
The idea behind killing used game sales is a relatively straightforward one. It's a simple, multi-stage process that ends up with those who made the game getting the short end of the stick.
- Gamestop sells a new game for $60, they get a fraction, the publisher gets a fraction, the developer gets a fraction, and so on.
- A customer sells that game back to Gamestop a month later for $20.
- Gamestop sells that game to another customer for $40, pocking $20 in pure profit while the publishers and developers get nothing from what is essentially a second sale.
The used games market is enormous, particularly in this rough economy, and it's a huge part of the reason GameStop has managed to thrive in an age where Blockbusters and Barnes and Nobles are closing left and right.
It makes sense why developers and publishers want to be paid for copies of their own game, but at what cost? What would Microsoft have to give up to implement something like this?
Even when this was just a mere rumor, the internet was flooded with comments on forums and message boards saying that if the next generation Xbox did in fact come with such a restriction, they would automatically buy whatever Sony put out.
The truth is, there isn't all that much space between Sony and Microsoft's consoles, at least not in their current form, and many feel that may continue into the future. Yes, Microsoft has a few exclusive franchises Sony doesn't, but it also has ruffled feathers for charging an arm and a leg for Xbox Live. By instituting a policy that would eliminate used games for the system entirely, that could be enough to send a lot of people over the edge and into the arms of their competitors for good.
But what if this is part of some grand conspiracy in the next console generation, and Sony is in on it as well? What if the two companies sign a blood pact with the intent to eliminate used games sales altogether? Well, that wouldn't quite work either, as Nintendo's Wii U already has no such restriction, and gamers could embrace them instead. Additionally, if this "Steam Box" ever comes to fruition, it would be in a prime place to take advantage of all those who want cheap games, but can no longer get them on consoles.
Many, many people primarily buy used games for their systems, due to the fact that they are often significantly cheaper than new copies. Many would probably not play video games at all unless they could get these titles for cheap, or sell back their own games to help pay for new ones. Not to mention the fact that this move would be effectively declaring outright war on GameStop. Sure they sell used games, but they also sell new ones, and if their stock is dropping when this is just a rumor, what happens if it's a reality? That's a longstanding alliance they probably wouldn't want to shatter. GameStop is none too pleased with even whispers of news like this, and responded in kind yesterday to the rumor via a spokesman:
"We know the desire to purchase a next-generation console would be significantly diminished if new consoles were to prohibit playing pre-owned games, limit portability or not play new physical games."
That's the gist of what I'm saying here, and it's been met by a firm "no comment" from Microsoft.
Even if console manufacturers did want to go full steam ahead with this, the only way it would work would be if prices of new games started falling quickly after release, or at least far faster than they do currently. The companies would have to match the equivalent price of whatever the games could be sold for used at GameStop in order to attract customers. But would the revenue loss on fully priced $60 used titles offset that sort of move as prices fall? That's unclear, and it might not be worth it for Sony or Microsoft.
Lastly, I just don't buy this idea that used games hurt more than they help. How many people have gotten into a game series by picking up an older game for cheap at the store? How many people have bought a new game because they sold back four of their old ones? How many have discovered a new franchise they love after borrowing a game from their friend? These avenues would be effectively eliminated, and such a move could hamstring either a specific system (Xbox in this case), or the entire concept of consoles if they all colluded to eradicate used games sales.
And do we really have to go with other analogies here? Publishers and developers can often come off as wrongly lamenting an idea that's been a part of the economy for as long as there's been an economy. When you buy something, you own it, and you can resell it to whoever you choose. Does Apple need a cut when I sell my buddy my last-gen iPod for $50? Does Ford demand cash when I put my 2009 Fusion on the market after paying for it in full myself? This idea seems contrary to common sense, though as we move into the digital age, there might not be such a thing as "secondhand products" anymore. But there are now, and until there aren't, this can't happen.
I don't believe the rumor, but even if I did, I can't imagine it's an idea that will make it past a "what if" concept. And it shouldn't.


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Facebook Experiments with 'Want' and 'Collect' Buttons
(NEW YORK) -- Do you like Facebook's "Like" buttons? People use them for all sorts of reasons -- there's even an experiment in which you can click on it to send hugs -- but Facebook, in the meantime, is experimenting with a few variations.
Facebook is testing new "want" and "collect" buttons for its new "Collections" feature. The new buttons, which only appear so far on a few select pages, allow users to create "wish lists" of the stuff they, well, wish for. The wish list is a gallery of sorts of all the items you've collected or wanted.
Facebook is testing the Collections feature with Fab.com, Michael Kors, Pottery Barn, Victoria's Secret, Wayfair.com, and others. If you are a fan of any of those retailers the collections might appear in your News Feed.
Collections is Facebook's second experiment in the last two weeks as it tries out a move into the e-commerce space. Last week Facebook released Gifts, which allows you to buy items for friends directly through the site.
With Collections you don't actually buy the items on Facebook.com, but you do show your interest.
"Collections can be discovered in News Feed, and people will be able to engage with these collections and share things they are interested in with their friends. People can click through and buy these items off of Facebook," the social networking company said in a statement.
There is a "buy" link directly under products you add to your wish lists, but Facebook told ABC News that it is not profiting directly from this feature and doesn't have plans to. The new buttons won't be available across the Web the way the Like button currently is either.
Last week Facebook announced that it had over one billion active users on the site for the first time.
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On March 27, the Los Alamos High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp assembled in uniform for the annual Area Manager's Inspection (AMI), the personal and unit assessment that ranks schools in their area.
At the end of every school year, all NJROTC units — the student bodies from each high school in an area undergo this inspection as a progress review. Including parts of six states and reaching all the way to Oklahoma, the local area is a large partition. A high ranked review allows the high school's NJROTC to receive the title of "Distinguished Unit," placing it in the top 10 percent of participating schools. Having been named "Distinguished Unit" for the past 13 years, LAHS participants had high expectations as they performed various drills. Participation in the event is a significant portion of each student's grade for the NJROTC class.
Teen Pulse staff writer Michael Booton asked students, "How do you feel about the PARCC tests after you have taken them?"
Today's question, asked anonymously is, "Has natural human evolution essentially stagnated due to intrinsic human morality, laws, religion and scientific advances?"
This week's question is very interesting. Essentially the question asks if the principles surrounding evolution (specifically those Darwinian in nature, involving natural selection), have been counteracted by the societal advances we can observe today.
The concise answer to this question is, yes. Bearing in mind that evolution is not unanimously accepted as valid, I will base this column on the premise that evolution is an indisputably accurate fact.
As humans have grown in the addressed subjects (morality, laws, religion and science), we have become able to protect those, who in pre-modern times, would have died due to inability.
A good example of this is blindness. Thousands of years ago, if a child was born blind, it would be practically forced to fend for itself, and with blindness as an impediment the child would soon die. But contemporarily, our morals are so developed that any child with a developmental hinderance, such as blindness, would be cared for or even provided with medical assistance that would completely negate, what in previous centuries, would be considered as a lethal encumberance.
Monday: Freeze tag
Tuesday: Dodge ball (Los Alamos) Four Square (White Rock)
Wednesday: Movies and muchies
Thursday: Paper Loop Flowers
Friday: WII Friday
Teen Pulse staff writer Katherine Wang asked students, "Who is your role model? Why?"
Los Alamos High School student cadets and guests, dressed in uniforms and formal attire, assembled in a ballroom at Buffalo Thunder Resort for March 14 military ball, the Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps annual formal social event.
The military ball serves both as a social outlet and a time to recognize the importance of events that otherwise go unspoken throughout the year. It celebrates the NJROTC program and is a show of the etiquette and refinement apparent in its participants. The many ideals of the program were summarized by guest speaker John Krepps as he congratulated participants on past success and encouraged continued participation.
Including elements of many other youth dances, such as a court, the NJROTC attendees of the ball displayed exceptional elegance. Opening with the national anthem and a presentation of the "colors," or a flag ceremony, the atmosphere was immediately respectful, making the patriotism emphasized by the program evident. Male cadets wore their uniforms, some with impressive adornments that spoke of their involvement and dedication, while male guests wore suits.
Youth Activity Center Schedule
Monday: Bingo
Tuesday: Popcorn balls
Wednesday: Movies and munchies
Thursday: Pool tournament
Friday: Kids choice game/activity
The Los Alamos Youth Activity Center is located at 475 20th Street, 662-9412. The White Rock Activity Center is located at 139 Sherwood Blvd., 672-1565.
Memberships are free and open to all third through eighth
Teen Pulse staff writer Rigel Baron asked students, "What kind of phone do you have, do you like it and why?"
On March 6-7, student leaders from the Order of the Arrow (OA) of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) met to discuss new events and plan the induction of new members in a quarterly Spring Fellowship meeting.
The OA was founded by Dr. E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson in 1915 at the Treasure Island Camp of the Philadelphia Council, BSA. It originated as an experiment to provide leadership opportunities to scouts and officially became part of the Boy Scouts program in 1934.
The Order of the Arrow is now recognized as the National Honor Society for the BSA and focuses on serving scouts and the community in addition to normal scouting activities such as camping.
The order is divided into lodges, sections and regions which give students multiple chances to hone leadership skills.
Home school junior from Los Alamos, Michael Booton has been advancing through leadership positions ever since he became a member of the OA. "I started doing various leadership activities. I was a manager and I kept going and took over publications in northern New Mexico in May 2012," Booton said. He went on to become vice chief of operations and is now chief of his lodge, Yah-Tah-Hey-Si-Kess which in Navajo means "hello, my friend."
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SEATTLE — A Western Washington saw and wood planing mill, Mason County Forest Products, violated federal law when a crew manager sexually harassed female employees and fired two women because of their gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. One of the women was terminated also in retaliation for opposing the discrimination, according to the agency.
The EEOC's suit charges that a male manager at the Mason County Forest Products mill in Shelton, Wash., sexually harassed at least two of his female supervisees and perhaps others. According to the federal agency's investigation, the manager repeatedly made crude comments about women, body parts and intercourse, assigned female employees more menial tasks, and treated women more harshly than men, using an edge of physical intimidation. Ultimately, he fired the two women from his crew, resulting in the all-male work team he frequently announced as his ideal. One woman was dismissed as soon as he learned of her effort to report his discrimination.
Sexual harassment, retaliation, and terminating employees because of their gender violate Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed the suit (Case No.C09-5609-RBL) in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court. The EEOC seeks monetary damages on behalf of the workers, training on anti-discrimination laws, posting of notices at the work site, and other injunctive relief.
EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo said, "Women in non-traditional jobs often face obstacles in their careers, including the biased attitudes of some men who abuse their power over them. We hope that this lawsuit will send notice to employers in the timber industry to stop abuses of supervisory power."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado stated, "The treatment that these women experienced was inexcusable. The EEOC has filed suit to help deter future violations of the law."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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We are very excited to include many awesome new features in this update, along with two new action buttons in the main game we are introducing an all new first person shooter styled game that allows you to take on bugs in a whole different way!
We have listened to our fans and our new in game add-on "Trig's Mission" is a shooting gallery inspired sniper mini game for a fun new way to play while racking up fed credits for those who just want to get in and blast bugs!
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Our new "Regenerate" button that replenishes health at the tap of a button, no more need to rack up health drops on your way to the fight. This button will recharge after every use to give you a better chance at making it out alive!
Along with our last update we've improved the overall responsiveness of the swiping feature for movement and targeting control.
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For the first time ever in the history of Starship Troopers, the franchise comes to the mobile gaming platform on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch!
Experience the excitement of taking out giant space arachnids, or as we Marines like to call them, "BUGS!" In this fast-paced arcade style shooter, your marine drops into action, fitted with the all-new Federation Power Suit and a mass assortment of military ordinance. Join your fellow Marines to prove your worth as a true Roughneck as you engage with bug after bug in this prequel to the recent hit film by acclaimed anime director (and lifelong Starship Troopers fan!) Shinji Aramaki.
Stay on the course and avoid the barrage of obstacles in your way as you traverse your way through mazes of destruction and surprises around every corner. If you can make it out alive, your name will go down in history! Stay sharp Marine and remember, everyone fights, no one quits!
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text: rsyncsh Copyright (C) 2001 by Martin Pool This is a quick hack to build an interactive shell around rsync, the same way we have the ftp, lftp and ncftp programs for the FTP protocol. The key application for this is connecting to a public rsync server, such as rsync.kernel.org, change down through and list directories, and finally pull down the file you want. rsync is somewhat ill-at-ease as an interactive operation, since every network connection is used to carry out exactly one operation. rsync kind of "forks across the network" passing the options and filenames to operate upon, and the connection is closed when the transfer is complete. (This might be fixed in the future, either by adapting the current protocol to allow chained operations over a single socket, or by writing a new protocol that better supports interactive use.) So, rsyncsh runs a new rsync command and opens a new socket for every (network-based) command you type. This has two consequences. Firstly, there is more command latency than is really desirable. More seriously, if the connection cannot be done automatically, because for example it uses SSH with a password, then you will need to enter the password every time. We might even fix this in the future, though, by having a way to automatically feed the password to SSH if it's entered once.


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This food combination sounds really strange we know but, it is worth a try.
Many fruits, veggies or spices are used as cures when combined right and there won't be any other need for meds.
We have a recipe for you and it is called garlic milk. It is a medicine that is natural and it is warm.
- 500 ml milk
- 10 garlic cloves, minced
- 2-3 tsp sugar
- 250 ml water
In a pot, put the water and milk and then add the garlic. Put on the heat and let this boil a bit. The heat must be medium, not more, and stir all the time. Strain this and add sugar in this mix. Drink warm!
3 garlic cloves daily at night, relieves this problem
Have this milk 3 times per day and treat this
This drink lessens the bad LDL cholesterol and stops clots to form, so the heart health is much better. If you make this with low fat or skimmed milk, it will be even more effective.
The garlic is great for curing this and toxin removal too. The garlic activates good enzymes and the liver starts to work fine. Our liver needs sulfur to make the body detox and the garlic has that sulfur. This is crucial for the liver and it is even better for fatty liver disease. It has allicin, selenium too and makes more bile so the fat of the liver is lessened. If you drink this mix for 5 days, jaundice will be gone.
Have this mix daily and reduce such pains or inflammation
Such mixes soothe you and help you relax more.
Add turmeric in this and the perfect cough cure is here. Make garlic, milk and turmeric for this purpose. The garlic kills bacteria and if you add even honey It will soothe the chronic cough issues forever.
This mix is great for this problem too. the garlic sulfur is a great aid in this case. Use 1 g garlic, 240 ml milk and water 1 liter. Boil them all mixed and in the end you are left with ¼ of the initial amount. Consume 3 times per day.
Have this mix warm and for 7 days too, the bad LDL cholesterol will be reduced and the good HDL one, will be increased.
Garlic is an antiseptic and this means boosted strong immunity and good digestion too. also this is great for cleaning lymph system and toxic removal too. also, garlic makes more digestion juices and aids in diarrhea cases.
This milk is great for such problems as well. Also consider eating boiled garlic chunks for both female and male fertility issues.
Garlic milk removes nerve pain also known as sciatica. With time, this cure will leave permanent benefits for the future too.


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Town, union spar over retaliation, dismissal charges
A union has filed a labor complaint against the Town of New Canaan alleging it retaliated against employees who successfully voted to unionize last month.
The municipal prohibited practice complaint, which was filed with the state Department of Labor Dec. 23, claims one of those employees has been discharged from his or her position. A town official has denied the allegations.
Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees claims the town "interfered with, restrained and coerced employees" in the exercise of their labor rights and "dominated or interfered with the formation, existence or administration of Complainant Union, discharged or otherwise discriminated against an employee or employees."
The complaint was put on hold Jan. 10, according to Bob Parziale, the union's service representative and author of the complaint. An informal hearing that was scheduled for Jan. 16 was postponed while town and union representatives negotiate, according to Parziale and Council 4 spokesman Larry Dorman.
"We're currently having discussions with the town and hoping we can achieve a resolution that's fair to everyone," Dorman said.
In a Dec. 2 special election, 34 town hall employees voted 19-15 in favor of forming a union. The complaint further states that "the town interfered and coerced employees who expressed interest in forming the union by singling them out by imposing discipline up to and including discharge."
In a statement released Wednesday, Personnel Director Cheryl Jones denied the allegations.
"No employee has been fired and we certainly did not discriminate over the union vote," she said. "The union vote was not a surprise in any event as efforts to organize have been going on since 2007 and we have a number of town unions already."
Referring to the complaint, Dorman said the town took actions against those employees.
"People were singled out based on the role they played in forming the union," he said. "Part of what happened included the discharge of an employee."
In her statement, Jones said, "I do not know what Mr. Dorman is talking about. I have never met or spoken to Mr. Dorman. No employee has been fired and we certainly did not discriminate over the union vote."
She called Dorman's statements "completely false."
"As the director of human resources I have worked with unions for eight years," she said. "I feel that I have a good relationship with our union representatives and I do not discriminate against union employees. This is a personnel matter that is completely unrelated to the unionization of employees."
Dorman declined to name any employees involved or comment on the specifics of the complaint "out of respect for the process."
While town and union officials won't discuss which employees are involved or who was discharged, the Board of Selectmen went into an executive session Jan. 7 to discuss a personnel matter "concerning the employment, performance, evaluation, or dismissal" of Pam Lind, the accounts payable coordinator in the Finance Department, according to the agenda.
The draft minutes for the Jan. 7 meeting show that Mallozzi "presented a personnel matter concerning the employment, performance, evaluation, or dismissal of a public officer or employee. He explained that the matter involved the consideration and vote on possible action concerning Town employee Pam Lind. Mr. Mallozzi suggested, because of the nature of this item, that it be discussed in executive session." Lind, Jones, Parziale, Finance Director Dawn Norton, Town Attorney Floyd Dugas and Administrative Officer Tom Stadler were invited to attend the executive session.
After the closed-door discussion, Mallozzi made a motion "to table this personnel matter to a meeting later in January," according to the draft minutes. Selectmen Beth Jones, Nick Williams and Mallozzi approved the motion unanimously, the document shows.
Mallozzi declined to discuss the matter, and Dugas, through Mallozzi, said he would not comment.
Earlier this week, Cheryl Jones said no one from the Finance Department has been discharged. She said she would not discuss whether or not Lind was still working for the town because "it's a personnel matter."
She said, however, that there is someone currently working as accounts payable coordinator and that person is not Lind. "Someone is doing those tasks," Jones said.
Lind, who started working for the Finance Department in February 2003, could not be reached for comment.
The Municipal Employee Labor Relations Act states that an "employer may not discriminate against an employee for joining a union, engaging in an organizational campaign, filing grievances or other protected concerted activity."
According to the complaint, Council 4 is seeking "comprehensive statutory remedy including but not limited to an order to cause Respondent to cease and desist the interfering and coercion of said employee; make the discharged employee whole for any/all losses; and pay to Complainant all costs borne by Complainant in pursuance of this Complaint and compliance therewith."
Cheryl Jones said she was "not aware of any employees that are being targeted or singled out."
"We have a zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind," she said in her statement.
The 34 employees, who soon will be unionized, are from five town buildings and have 24 different job titles, including assistant town clerks, accountants, assistant assessors, administrative assistants, office managers, program directors, parking enforcement officers and accounts payable coordinator. They still are not covered by any collective-bargaining agreements. Dorman said a membership meeting will take place at the end of the month. After that, a contract will be drafted, he said.
In December, Mallozzi said he was "perplexed" by the motivations behind the employees who voted in favor of forming the union. At the time, he noted that those employees had good working conditions, including a pension plan, subsidized health insurance, annual raises, personal and sick days, 11 paid holidays and annual raises.
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History Channel: Mega Movers - Moving An Airport
People on the move naturally head for airports, but what if the airport ITSELF was on the move? Impossible? Not for this crew!
* What does it take to move impossibly large airport structures?
* The ultimate in heavy lifting.
* Engineers are put to the test relocating everything from 19th century churches to massive factories.
If you're the type who can't leave anything behind, you may have to call in the MEGA MOVERS. Whether it?s a 19th century church, a railroad bridge or an entire beach there's nothing our experts can't relocate. Of course, when it comes time to lift a structure from its foundations and head down the road (at a fraction of a mile an hour), every creak and groan can provide a vital clue, and a mistake of an inch could spell disaster.
No-one in their right mind would even consider moving the visually stunning, million-square-feet, white peaked roof of the Denver International Airport. Luckily, we're talking about the Mega-Movers!
And when a futuristic (circa 1962) airport terminal no longer does the job, it has to go. But if it's the Trans World Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen and it's a historic landmark, then you can't just knock it down. No, even if it weighs 800 tons and contains acres of glass walls, you're going to have to move it. Luckily, the MEGA MOVERS crew has the know-how, the guts and access to the most heavy-lift equipment ever amassed.


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Benefit 'Brow Bars,' Stila and Marc Jacobs Products Help Achieve the Groomed Brow Look
The latest grooming trend isn't raising eyebrows. It's making them the focus.
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24th Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz
When: October 11-14, 2012
Where: Creighton Farms, Aldie, Va., and River Creek Club, Leesburg, Va.
What's on the Line: The 264 PGA Club Professionals are vying for the Leo Fraser Trophy and 35 spots in the 2013 Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, to be played at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo.
Tee times and live scoring | Official course and par yardage (.pdf)
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Last Year: Relive Kirk Hanefeld's 2011 victory
TWITTER: Join the conversation at hashtag #2012SeniorPNC
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SUNDAY: Woodward wins 2012 Southworth Senior PNC with final-hole eagle
Jim Woodward of Edmond, Okla., won the 24th Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz on Sunday in dramatic fashion. The PGA teaching professional at Oak Tree National Golf Club uncorked a mammoth drive on the on the 569-yard, par-5 closing hole and followed with a 4-hybrid approach 245 yards to a foot from the hole. He then tapped in for eagle, edging Mike Miles of Huntington Beach, Calif., by one stroke.
--West of Arizona makes hole-in-one in final round
SATURDAY: Woodward ties course record to take 54-hole lead
Jim Woodward of Oklahoma erased his bad memories of past tours around Creighton Farms on Saturday, turning in a 66 to match the competitive course record and grab the 54-hole lead. The 55-year-old Woodward owns a 54-hole total of 2-under-par 214 and a two-stroke margin over Mike Lawrence of South Carolina, who closed with a 71, and second-round co-leader Bob Gaus of Missouri, who struggled with bogeys on two of his final three holes for a 74.
FRIDAY: New York's Bolling and New Jersey's Britton share 36-hole lead
With cold, blustery conditions creating hurdles for most of the field, Charlie Bolling of Glen Cove, N.Y., and 2009 Champion Bill Britton of Colts Neck, N.J., were on cruise control Friday. Bolling posted a 3-under-par 69 and Britton turned in a 70 at Creighton Farms, to grab a one-stroke lead in the second round while scores went soaring among a field of 264 players representing 43 states.
THURSDAY: Gaus and Nakamura share first-round lead
Bob Gaus of St. Louis and tournament rookie Bruce Nakamura of Vista, Calif., each overcame a near-disastrous tour of the 18th hole at River Creek Club on Thursday to post matching 3-under-par 69s and share the opening-round lead. Defending Champion Kirk Hanefeld of Acton, Mass., heads a 10-member delegation just a stroke back.
--Pair of aces highlight first round of play in Southworth Senior PNC
Stellar field assembles for Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship
The field in the 24th Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz USA is perhaps the strongest assembled in the history of the popular PGA of America member event. The 264-player contingent that converges Oct. 10-14 features representatives from 43 states, including 11 past National Champions.
--Notebook: Back to Virginia, three players aiming for history, a brother act, and more
Defending champion Hanefeld looks to make history with third Senior PNC victory
Kirk Hanefeld is thrilled to be making a return trip to a place where he made a bit of history in 2011, and hoping he can make a lot more history in 2012. The PGA Director of Instruction at Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill, Mass., is seeking to become the first three-time winner of the Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz USA.
Creighton Farms, River Creek Club to again host Southworth Senior PNC
For the second consecutive year, Creighton Farms in Aldie, Va., and River Creek Club in Leesburg, Va., will co-host the 2012 Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz. The Championship, with a field of 50-and-older senior PGA Professionals, is set for Oct. 11-14.
Creighton Farms' Vidal looking ahead to return of Southworth Senior PNC
Mike Vidal knows that chances to host a National Championship and an elite group of PGA Professionals doesn't come around often. And to have that happen two years in a row makes it even more special.


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A man was convicted Wednesday afternoon for fatally stabbing someone almost two years ago at the Hilton Costa Mesa.
An Orange County Superior Court jury found Adam Randy Baker, 25, of Dana Point guilty of second-degree murder and attempted murder with a sentencing enhancement.
Baker committed the city's first murder of 2011 outside a New Year's Eve party at the hotel. He got into a fight with Robert Sickles, 27, of Mission Viejo, and his friends after flicking a cigarette at them, prosecutors said previously.
Sickles' friend, Brian McTeigue, also of Mission Viejo, tried to intervene and was stabbed in the back, police said in 2011.
"Our hearts go out to the families," prosecutor Matt Murphy said Wednesday.
Baker is set to be sentenced Feb. 4. He faces 23 years to life in prison.
— Lauren Williams
Twitter: @lawilliams30


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Large Color Screen, FM Radio, microSD Expansion Slot Ideal for Subscription Music Downloads, Viewing Photos and Video
LAS VEGAS, NV - Jan. 5, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) introduced today its top-of-the-line SanDisk Sansa™ e200 MP3 player with a large color screen and 6-gigabytes (GB) of storage capacity that makes it ideal for listening to music or viewing photos and personal videos. The company also introduced the Sansa c100, a value-conscious MP3 player with a color screen and compact size. Both families were unveiled at a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Booth #30329, South Hall Level 3, Las Vegas Convention Center.
"Music is an incredibly important part of the digital lifestyle, where the emphasis is on accessibility of music, styling and ruggedness on the go," said Eric Bone, director of audio/video product marketing at SanDisk. "These new players have a rich set of features, a high-strength industrial design and a friendly price tag that we believe will appeal to anyone who appreciates music on the go."
Sansa e200-SanDisk's Flagship MP3 Player
The Sansa e200 series features a slim new design and a 1.8-inch (4.572 cm) TFT color screen (QCIF+) along with high-quality audio, photo viewing and video playback capabilities. It offers an industry-leading, 6GB capacity that holds more than 1,400 MP3 songs2. It is also available in 2 and 4GB models. Its large color screen is ideal for easily viewing playlists, photos and personal videos.
Its distinctive, high-strength and lightweight back cover is made with an advanced Titanium alloy from Liquidmetal® Technologies that is stronger than steel and highly resistant to scratches and wear. It includes a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery for long playtime and can be replaced by the customer to ensure the player provides many years of continuous service. Dimensions of the Sansa e200 are 1.7 in. wide x 3.5 in. long x 0.5 in. high (4.4 cm wide x 8.9 cm long x 1.3 cm high).
For instant access to millions of digital songs, the Sansa e200 series players will support Microsoft® PlaysForSure™ so consumers can download and pay for songs individually or download an unlimited amount of music for a flat monthly subscription fee from music stores such as Rhapsody To Go® and others.
The Sansa e200 includes other features to enhance the listening and viewing experience.
These include:
Suggested Retail Price
# of songs 2 (MP3)
Playback time 3
# of songs (WMA)
|Playback time
|Sansa e250 (2GB) 1
32 hours, MP3
64 hours, WMA
|Sansa e260 (4GB) 1
64 hours, MP3
128 hours, WMA
|Sansa e270 (6GB) 1
128 hours, MP3
256 hours, WMA
The Sansa e200 series will be available this Spring in the U.S. and Europe. - Pricing updated 4/06
Sansa c100-Feature Rich, Value Priced
The Sansa c100 series is for the value-conscious consumer who wants a high-quality, large capacity music player with a color screen. It is available in 1- and 2GB capacities.
The 1.21-inch (3.07 cm) color screen can be used to view thumbnail-size digital images such as album art or create a slideshow with music.
The Sansa c100 line will support Microsoft PlaysForSure subscription and downloads compliance for easy accessibility to a wide range of music and music stores. It also includes an FM digital tuner with 20-channel presets, FM on-the-fly recording and voice-recording capabilities with its built-in microphone. The new player uses a single AAA battery to power the unit and features a universal accessory connector for the easy addition of future accessories.
Suggested Retail Price
Playback time
# of songs
|Playback time
# of songs
|Sansa c140 (1GB)1
|16 hours, MP3
|32 hours, WMA
|Sansa c150 (2GB)1
|32 hours, MP3
|64 hours, WMA
The Sansa c100 series will be available this Spring in the U.S. and Europe.
New Players Designed For Ease of Use
For convenience and ease of use, the new players feature an intuitive, icon-based menu to quickly select and navigate key functions.
The new players are designed to work seamlessly with a wide range of popular music formats such as MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) in both unprotected and protected files (such as those WMA files purchased from music stores). It also supports the newest music subscription services found at Rhapsody to Go and others.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
Images of SanDisk products are available at http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/media-kit
SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the and other countries. Gruvi, microSD, Sansa and TrustedFlash are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. SanDisk is an authorized licensee of the SD trademark. RealNetworks and Rhapsody are registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. Microsoft, PlaysForSure and Windows Media are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. LiquidMetal is a registered trademark of LiquidMetal Technologies, Inc. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
[1] 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.
[2] Approximate figures at four minutes per song
[3] Approximate playback at 128kbps MP3, 64kbps WMA
Media Contact:
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We are a gathering of thinkers, doers, artists, dreamers, muckrakers, and builders interested in life on the water.
We construct a floating city on the Sacramento River Delta at Mandeville Point and live on it for seven days.
There are no tickets, no central organizers, no rules, and no Rangers to keep you safe. You must practice radical self-reliance, if you want to have a good time.
What's it like to attend? Here's a slideshow from past years of Ephemerisles. Also see Judd Weiss's pictures from Ephemerisle 2014.
Since there's no central organizer, the event only happens if people contribute.
After lively discussion in 2012 about the values that connect Ephemerislers as a community, the following received broad support:
- Seasteading. Ephemerisle was started by The Seasteading Institute (TSI), a non-profit devoted the creation of long-term human communities on the water (aka seasteading). Although the event is now entirely community run, many of the attendees continue to be enthusiasts of living on the water.
- Art. A society without art has no soul. Just as Burning Man has inspired art in the desert, we want to inspire art on the sea.
- Learning. One of the goals of TSI in starting Ephemerisle was to give people who may not have much boating experience the opportunity to gain nautical skills: anchoring, sailing, ropework, etc in a relatively safe environment. In addition, many of the attendees are scientists, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs and activists, who frequently have fascinating stories to tell. There are many opportunities to learn from each other at Ephemerisle.
- Community. Spend a week rafted up on the Delta with awesome people, and you can't up but connect with old friends, and make new friends.
Ephemerisle 2017
Ephemerisle 2017 will take place during July 17 - 23.
Before anything else, PLEASE READ THE survival guide!! The Survival guide contains important "how tos" and information on having a fun, safe time.
Then read the page for Ephemerisle 2017
Looking for a berth? Join a crew!
Ephemerisle events are listed on the What, Huh, Whoa spreadsheet:
The Facebook group can sometimes have an overwhelming amount of discussion. Join the Ephemerisle Announcements Only mailing list to receive important announcements.
Here are the dates for future years.
Get involved
Here's a few things you can do: bring art, give talks, build your own boats and platforms, rent a truck and help carry floating platform parts, build illumination, make music, bring a wakeboard, and help build this wiki.
- Join the Facebook Group.
- Attend scheduled pre-Ephemerisle events. If there's none listed, check back regularly.
- Create an art project.
- Help create / maintain this wiki. Ask Adam Katz for access and see the wiki todo list.


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Family History Research in and around Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Jack has been undertaking genealogical research for more than twenty years, and is one of the foremost experts in Gloucestershire and surrounding areas. Liz, as she is known, and her assistant, Trisha Phillips, can bring their vast experience and knowledge to your research, and help shed light on your family's Hidden Heritage.
Check out our Services page to see what can be done to help you discover more about your ancestors, the way they lived, how they worked and where they worshipped, etc. . No task is too small or too large. We aim to uncover the hidden facts and events which will bring your family history to life.
Are you planning to visit our beautiful county? Have a look at our Gloucestershire pages to discover where to stay and what to do whilst here. See pictures of the area in our gallery. Find out more about our organisations, events and traditions.
Do you need to do some background reading to find out more about life, past and present, in our county? Check out the Books page to find details of books produced and forthcoming books by us, books written about people and places in Gloucestershire, essential reference books for the county and genealogical books in general.
Over the years, we have produced photographic CDs of each parish in Gloucestershire and in Herefordshire so that you can get a glimpse of the areas where your ancestors lived and worked. Also we have produced a CD of photographs of some prisoners held in Gloucester Gaol with details of their crimes. Find these for sale on the Store pages as well as copies of old tithe, enclosure and estate maps produced by Geoff Gwatkin and, of course, our own books.
Next we have Liz's genealogical Blog pages with comments from her on items of interest to anyone seeking their ancestors in Gloucestershire.
Finally, you can learn a little more about us and how to contact us on the About page.
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This fact sheet answers frequently asked questions about epilepsy, a general term that refers to a tendency to have recurrent seizures.
Review Date: Thursday, February 03, 2011
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDCU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Think you know everything there is to know about epilepsy? Here are ten questions that test your knowledge.
Review Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Epilepsy Foundation of America
Find neurologists who are active members of the American Epilepsy Society and specialize in the treatment of epilepsy, a seizure disorder.
Epilepsy comes from a Greek word meaning "to hold or seize," and people who have epilepsy have seizures. If you see someone having a seizure, here are some steps to follow.
Review Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The Nemours Foundation
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Posted by JC on October 23, 1998 at 19:18:30:
In Reply to: Need help and advice with a COURT hearing posted by Shane Hanson on October 21, 1998 at 22:26:04:
: Haven't been here recently but it's nice to see all the good information that has been added.
: Now to a little dilemma that has come apon me.
: I have been using my car for personal travel without any licensing for almost a year now. Unfortunatly I was pulled over a few days ago for allegedly speeding. Well to make a long story sort they were not very knowledgable about my rights and now I have a court date for November 18th.
: I have obtained lots of good information to use but I was wondering if anyone else has had to deal with this particular situation and if so do you have a good suggestion for how I should defend myself.
: The route I am thinking of taking is first off petition for a jury trial. November 18th is actually the date I go to enter my plea. I am thinking of asking the judge to dismiss the cass on the grounds that there is no law, as defined by both Bouviers and Black's law dictionari'es, that requires me to obtain licensing. If this dose not work on the date of the actual trial before a jury I will define both law and statute, from a law dictionary. And then go on to cite cases across the country similar to my own were it has been shown that you do not need to be licensed to use your automobile. And after that I with show how that our consitution guarentees me the right to travel as I see fit. As long as I do not infringe upon someone elses right to life, liberty, or property.
: All input is welcome. If anyone knows of some good Supreme Court ruling's on ether the defenitions of law and statute, or on the right of a person to travel without licensing, please let me know.
: And again ALL INPUT IS WELCOME. This is the first time I have ever had to go to court my knowlegde of court procedings is very lacking all help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
: A fellow laborer in the work,
: Shane Hanson
go to http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~karl/govt/lawsuit and download 50 page traffic brief.
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