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Great review Nick, I think I will have to avail myself of a copy of this book...
Métier; A job or profession, particularly the one for which a person has the strongest aptitude and most enjoys doing.
The French word 'métier' has its Latin root in 'ministerium' or 'service' and by the time I'd finished reading Le Métier - the seasons of a professional cyclist by Canadian Michael Barry with photographs by Camille J McMillan I was under no illusions about what degree of service it requires to succeed as a professional cyclist.
I approached Le Métier as I approach a copy of Rouleur, the quarterly magazine that documents the passions and foibles of road cyclists-of-a-certain-type and published by the same folks as this book; an expectation of a happy 20 minutes or so skimming the photographs and captions before putting it down to carry on with something more pressing. Then keeping it lying around to dip into over weeks or months. I like Rouleur because it lends a flagship legitimacy to my hobby when I'm surrounded by friends and family who think a 50-year-old dreaming about bicycle parts and bicycle racing is ridiculous.
With this, I picked up Le Métier on a Saturday when I was supposed to be riding and didn't put it down again for four hours by which time I'd absorbed some 32,000 words divided into chapters Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. The book covers Michael Barry's year of 2009 with the team that had then become Columbia-Highroad but if I was hoping for a spilling-of-the-beans on Mark Cavendish and his team mates it would have been a disappointing read.
In fact, considering Barry has had a long and distinguished career riding for, among others, the various versions of US Postal featuring Lance Armstrong, Columbia-Highroad and now Team Sky it's perhaps a surprise that more big names don't get mentioned although, to be fair, Barry's previous book 'Inside the Postal Bus: My Ride with Lance Armstrong' pretty much said what could be said considering they're now on different teams.
Where he does mention riders, it's his close friends particularly David Millar, George Hincapie and Christian Vande Velde (who provides the forward to Le Métier), his fellow residents and training companions in the Spanish cyclists' enclave of Girona in Spain, who are described in the most loyal terms. Although all have had their moments of glory, it's in the shared experience as domestiques for the stars, the leadout men for the likes of Mark Cavendish that shine out of this narrative. These are the real stars, I now realise.
Of course, since Le Métier was published in April, the American Floyd Landis has implicated Michael Barry, George Hincapie, most famously Lance Armstrong, and other members of the former US Postal team in accusations of organised performance enhancing drug-taking on a grand scale, all of which remains to be resolved.
Without a smoking gun, it never will be but in this book Barry discusses at length the fall and subsequent rehabilitation of his friend David Millar and without writing "I took drugs" neither does he shirk the thought, particularly in the touching portrayal of his former colleague, the now-disgraced Roberto Heras that professional cycling is certainly enough to drive you to drugs.
No, with some useful insight into his family and upbringing, this is mostly an internal meditation on the determination, loyalty, passion, sacrifice and good manners required to make it as a seasoned pro. It made me immediately want to give it to every 17-year-old I know. Mostly because of Barry's wry observations about young upstart neo-pros. Perhaps also to inspire them to keep training but mostly for the lesson that you can find happiness in the most backbreaking and apparently thankless tasks, if you believe in them.
It's an expensive production, this, with heavy art paper for the copious photography pages on which Camille McMillan has unobtrusively recorded Michael Barry's year, from training in the bleak winter countryside surrounding Girona to the no-less bleak Tour of Missouri in the late Autumn. Via basic hotels, cyclists' cafes and shitty changing rooms across the world. It's no world of glamour and the better for seeing it with an honest eye.
Michael Barry already has a well-respected regular column on the New York Times and this book only cements his reputation as a thoughtful and honest commentator on the human condition. He also happens to ride a bike but his métier is really teaching contentment through hard work, love and sharing with his family and friends.
Gritty, insightful, and inspiring account of what it takes to succeed as a cycling pro… and as a human being too
Le Métier - the seasons of a professional cyclist
By Michael Barry & Camille J McMillan
Hardback 204 pages Published by Rouleur £35
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We've heard a lot of discussion — even sparked some of it on occasion ourselves — about the differences between the technology hubs of Seattle and Silicon Valley.
Most of the time, it's people in the Seattle tech community who are ranting or raving (in part because many folks in the Valley largely don't care about what's going on outside of the Bay Area echo chamber).
That's part of the reason why I found the discussion at the TechNW event Wednesday in Seattle particularly interesting. Instead of Seattle area venture capitalists sharing their views on the region, one of the panel discussions featured Silicon Valley VCs weighing in with their thoughts.
Now, granted, you'll have to take their remarks with a grain of salt. After all, Neil Sequeira of General Catalyst; Bob Abbott of Norwest Venture Partners; and Ray Bradford of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers agreed to be on the panel, which means they have some reason for investigating what's going on in the Pacific Northwest in the first place. (Perhaps finding the next Isilon, Zillow or Zulily).
It's also not common for visitors to rip a city while visiting it.
Still, they had some interesting things to say about the two regions, and why they think Seattle is poised to do well.
In response to a question from Washington Technology Industry Association CEO Susan Sigl, a former venture capitalist herself, Bradford pointed to the Seattle region's strong lineup of software talent.
"One of the things that's really remarkable about the Seattle tech ecosystem is there is a really high degree of talent, and a large volume of talent," said Bradford of Kleiner Perkins. "You'll get quality engineers at Amazon and Microsoft and other companies in the area. It is pretty remarkable. So, you've got the talent pool, which I think a lot of aspiring Silicon Valleys, including New York, don't necearsily have on the engineering side."
But there is one really big difference: Density.
Bradford, a former Amazon Web Services exec, noted that the San Francisco Bay Area is very much an "industry town," much as LA is built around film making.
"It is just in the water, and what that means is that there are a lot of serendipitous conversations that lead to business development opportunities, that lead to recruiting; that lead to new businesses being formed. And that's the part that is the hardest to replicate," said Bradford, adding that getting more people from Amazon.com and Microsoft interacting at startup-oriented events could help foster that density.
The arrival of big companies like Facebook and Zynga in Seattle will also help, but even so that will take time to fully form. And, at the end of the day, there's really no place on Earth quite like Silicon Valley. (There's a reason roughly half of all VC dollars flow in California). That's not to say great companies can't be built elsewhere, noted Sequeira.
But the veteran VC added that the City of San Francisco has done some smart things to attract technology companies, cutting payroll taxes in order to lure companies like Twitter. Now, that's feeding on itself, with other upstarts like Square and Airbnb following suit.
"San Francisco sacrificed income" in order to attract those companies, said Sequeira. Cities like Portland and Seattle could follow suit, making it a priority to attract fast-growing technology companies.
Moderator Bill Bryant pointed to the stereotype of Seattle as a region of reserved Scandinavians, wondering if the entrepreneurial community simply needs to get better on the "propaganda front." (I noted today that several important technology upstarts from Seattle were not included on Business Insider's list of the top 100 private tech companies). Not necessarily, according to the Silicon Valley VCs. Things that are too "hype-y" or "embellished" don't necessarily make the best deals, they said.
Previously on GeekWire from TechNW: Game experts debate: Is Microsoft Kinect a passing fad or here to stay?…Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff sounds off on the JOBS Act, calls it a 'step backwards'… Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff: Startups that try to disrupt real estate commissions are doomed to fail…Live from TechNW: The future of e-commerce…When venture capital returns rival T-bills, is something messed up with the model?


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Senior Pentagon officials told Congress the nation's largest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), is ready for action.
The Air Force said as much back in June after rushing the MOP back to Boeing for $82 million in modifications and enhancements, but this report puts it on the books as deployable ordnance.
According to Bloomberg's Tony Capaccio, on his annual report, the Pentagon's director of operational testing Michael Gilmore confirmed that tests conducted with the heavy GBU-57, a 20-foot long, 30,000 pound GPS-guided bomb thought able to penetrate 200 feet of concrete before exploding, have demonstrated that the redesigned bomb is able to hit and destroy deeply buried targets.
The enhanced MOP features tail-fin modifications to fix bugs identified in testings as well as as a second fuse to destroy hardened underground targets.
Gilmore's report says that the modifications were tested with five bomb drops from a B-2 stealth bomber on the White Sands Missile Range, conducted between June and October, and two ground tests.
The Pentagon tells us the B-2 is the only platform in the U.S. Air Force inventory able to carry and release its heaviest bomb, even if B-52s were used in previous tests.
The MOP is the bomb experts believe Israel needs if it wants to de-rail Iran's nuclear program for any length of time. While our Mid-East ally has a fresh supply of GBU-28 bunker busters, they are one-sixth the size and far less capable.
The MOP might actually be the only conventional bomb to best Iran's concrete technology, which is perhaps the most advanced in the world. The country lies on a very active seismic fault, making earthquakes a part of Iranian life. In response, Tehran's concrete industry has developed Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) doped with quartz and poured under the country's own high-demand blend of international codes.
This is the stuff military planners and field officers think of when they cite the MOP's 200-foot concrete penetration capability; and why the already super-capable Boeing bomb was sent back to the drawing board for additional work in the first place.
Now the military will need to prove it's capable of besting the advanced designs of the world's most secure military bunkers, and that will take more than just a better bomb.


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YORK – Mystery surrounds the origins of an unlikely object – an antique sewing basket.
But its roots may lie in eastern Lancaster County.
The basket was purchased in 1998 by the Culture and Heritage Museums in York County. There, its authenticity and approximate date of origin was verified as around 1850, consistent with the style and weaving techniques of African slaves at that time.
Great musicians always find a way to make good music, but for great musicians to make great music, they must find a bond that goes beyond the purely musical to the personal.
For The Grascals, that bond has been forged by friendships, shared resumes and a keen mingling of bluegrass and country music that has been a Nashville hallmark for more than 40 years.
Now they are coming here. The Grascals will perform 7:30 p.m. Saturday on the Bundy Auditorium stage in the Bradley Arts and Sciences Building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.
LAKE WATEREE – If the symbols for a 25th wedding anniversary are silver, green garnet and irises, those used in a 24th wedding anniversary have to be peace signs, beads, tie- dyed clothes, green toenail polish with purple polka dots and flower arrangements inevery color of the rainbow.
Evidently after celebrating 24 years together, you renew your vows surrounded by family and friends sitting on blankets in the midst of ladybugs meandering through patches of clover.
That's just what Charlene and Jamye Easler did Saturday at their "hippie wedding."
Editor's note: Each Sunday this month, in celebration of March as American Red Cross Month, The Lancaster News is honoring local volunteers who are the cornerstone of what the agency does. From donating blood and helping military families to disaster relief and teaching CPR and first aid, 96 percent of the Red Cross work force is volunteers. Many of those who make a difference everyday are your neighbors.
In 1989, Lancaster High School senior Pam Neely Giardiello started donating blood to the Red Cross at the urging of her mother, Kathy Sistare.
If a couple of the characters in Dr. John Griffin's latest book, "Murder in the Low Country" seem familiar, that's OK.
Griffin, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster, said they're supposed to.
Griffin will be signing copies of the book at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts gallery, 201 W. Gay St., from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Griffin sees Bronson sheriff and narrator Catlette "Cat" Wolfe every time he looks in a mirror.
It's time to "Spring forward."
Sunday at 2 a.m. signals the start of daylight-saving time, when Americans set their clocks ahead by an hour to create another hour of sunlight each evening.
Here are a few interesting facts about the time change you may not be aware of:
– It's officially called daylight-saving time, not daylight-savings time.
About 300 people showed up for last year's inaugural 4-H Fun Day.
Given this weekend's weather forecast, Ashley Hinson is looking for a heavy turnout for the second annual event, which raises community awareness of the 4-H programs for youth in Lancaster.
4-H Fun Day is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Ace Hardware and Garden Center, 714 S. Market St. Forecasters are calling for clear skies, plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the low 70s, which is a contrast to weather on the last two weekends.
OK, I'll admit it. I'm a fan of Girl Scout cookies. Not that I eat them (that much); gastric bypass took care of any affinity for sweets that I have several years ago.
But I am a fan. Imagine the surprise when I recently walked in and found two boxes on my desk, wrapped together with a bow, along with a note from Cherie Ellis, community development manager for the Mountains to Midlands division of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina.
The Peanut Butter Patties were placed on the newsroom alter, where they almost immediately disappeared.
Inclement weather on Sunday forced postponement of the fourth annual Friends Concert at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts gallery.
Organizer Erin Moon-Kelly said the concert has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. on March 8 at the arts gallery, 201 W. Gay St.
After 100 years, Mildred Caskey McWaters continues to grow in the kind of grace refined by fire.
No, it's not the kind of fire that emanated from the birthday cake she enjoyed during the celebration of her 100th birthday on Feb. 16 at White Oak Manor.
McWaters' grace comes from family flames that spark when one your four children accidentally sets the car shed ablaze and fire trucks show up, sirens blaring, in front of your home on West Gay Street.
In 1980, a relatively unknown bluegrass picker left Kentucky for Tennessee, where he promptly turned country music upside down with two No. 1 hits.
That artist – Ricky Skaggs – and those songs, "Cryin' My Heart Out Over You," and "I Don't Care," are credited with giving birth the neotraditonal country music movement.
Three years later, Skaggs was named "Entertainer of the Year" by the Country Music Association.
These days, you want the most for your money. Now that you've clipped all the coupons and recipes, finished the crossword puzzle and gleaned every valuable nugget of information from the previous edition of The Lancaster News, what do you do with what's left? Here are a few green suggestions on how to reuse and recycle your newspaper.
1. Compost
Attention all musicians and music lovers in the Lancaster area.
On Sunday afternoon, the Lancaster Council of the Arts gallery will once again be filled with beautiful musical strains ranging from Villia-Lobos to Johann Sebastian Bach during the 4th annual Friends Concert Series.
The event is cosponsored and produced by Erin Moon-Kelly, EMK Music and the Lancaster County Council for the Arts.
When I walked into the Buford Little General Store one day earlier this month, co-owner Missy West handed me a cupcake.
"Try it," she said. Never one to argue, I did.
"This is pretty good," I said. "Did you make these?"
Missy wasted little time with a reply.
"Yep," she said. "Now it's your turn," before handing me a Ziploc bag of something resembling pancake batter and a cake recipe for Amish Friendship Bread.
"First Day, Feb. 7," was written on the bag.
On Friday, May 27, 1791, American Revolution hero George Washington stopped by Nathan Barr's Tavern to eat breakfast during his tour of the Carolina backcountry.
It was part of a personal campaign the first president of the United States took each spring to become acquainted with the people he was elected to represent.
After spending the night at James Ingram's home near Hanging Rock, Washington records in his diary that he left there about 4 a.m.
Nobody has dreams of getting paid to perform at theme park in the mountains of East Tennessee, but that's just what Steve French of the Kingdom Heirs does these days.
One of the leading quartets in gospel music, the Kingdom Heirs will kick off the 2009 GlennMark Concert Series at 7 p.m. tonight at Second Baptist Church, 1526 Great Falls Highway.
"They only travel a few weeks during the winter months so it's a special event when they come to town," said Dennis Nichols of GlennMark.
Jamie Dailey & Darrin Vincent are indeed the real deal.
And given the way the two veteran musicians are taking the bluegrass scene by storm, there is a lot of truth to their "Real Deal" nickname.
The award-winning duo will be in concert here at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Fairway Room at Lancaster Golf Club.
With our tough economic times, it's great to fall back on your favorite hobbies to take your mind off the real world for just a little while.
If you're handy with a needle and thread, or would like to begin learn about sewing, the Lancaster One Stop Shop Hop is for you.
For Donzell and Billy Allen, every day is Valentine's Day. It's been that way through almost 50 years together and 42 years of marriage. And the Allens – who have been inseparable since becoming grammar school sweethearts in 1959 – don't plan on changing any time soon.
It's not that they don't appreciate holidays, family birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions.
They keep it in perspective.
"We try to make every day special," Billy says. "We try not to make issues out of big days."
On June 10, 1950, the big news in Lancaster was the upcoming high school graduations, the annual opening of Springs Park and a visit here by a replica of the Liberty Bell.
There was no newspaper mention about the group of Rock Hill Road (Riverside Road) residents who met at the old Catawba School that day with the goal of forming a missionary Baptist church in their community.
But it was a something that everyone at the meeting fully agreed with.
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The Pentagon is making no plans to prepare for half-a-trillion dollars in mandatory budget cuts scheduled to take effect in less than a year, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Such mandatory cuts – triggered after the so-called congressional "super committee" failed in November to reach consensus on deficit-cutting – represent a "doomsday scenario" for the American military that would "virtually devastate" national defense, senior defense officials have repeatedly warned.
Mr. Panetta emphasized the point Tuesday, warning lawmakers that the cuts amount to a "meat ax" that "we are convinced would hollow out the force and inflict severe damage on our national defense."
For that reason, top Pentagon brass say they refuse to even humor the possibility. "As the president has pointed out and I've emphasized, we are not paying attention to sequester," Mr. Panetta told reporters this month, using Washington-speak for the mandated cuts. "Sequester is crazy."
"We are not planning," Robert Hale, the Defense Department's chief financial officer, confirmed Monday. "I know nobody believes this, but it's true."
The Pentagon's position on the mandatory cuts is ill-advised, some defense analysts warn. Refusing to prepare any sort of blueprint for cuts of that magnitude – particularly given their supposedly dire consequences – is not only counterintuitive, but also dangerous, they say.
"If they fail to do that, they run the risk of being unprepared for what is a perfectly foreseeable contingency," says Todd Harrison, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "There are other options here other than saying, 'Doomsday,' folding your cards, and going home."
There has in fact been some movement on Capitol Hill to exempt the Pentagon from the $487 billion in required cuts, but the appetite for an exemption varies sharply along party lines.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was the lead sponsor a plan unveiled earlier this month to stave off defense cuts under sequester by making up the dollar through a freeze on pay for federal workers. "I believe the cuts are a threat to national security," he said.
The McCain plan does not have much support among congressional Democrats, however, who may use the sequester threats as leverage to encourage Republicans to drop their resistance to tax hikes on the wealthy. "The purpose of the sequester is to force us to act, to avoid it," Sen. Carl Levin (D) of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in January. The sequester rule "will only succeed if it's kept intact. It cannot be splintered."
Such political games of chicken have affected the Pentagon before, which is, perhaps, all the more reason to plan for cuts under the sequester scenario, analysts say.
In 1986, automatic budget cuts in the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act triggered sequestration for the Pentagon, amounting to 5 percent across-the-board cuts.
"If I were Secretary Panetta, I'd probably have a small group sworn to secrecy ... [preparing] something," says Andrew Krepinevich, who served during the 1980s in the Office of Net Assessment, the Defense Department's internal think tank.
Politically, such planning is difficult, Dr. Krepinevich acknowledges. Panetta has "already gone out on a limb," warning of raining "cats and dogs and all this stuff," so it's tough to walk back from the ledge and say, "No I didn't really mean that."
Other analysts concede this point. "It's part of the political game, right? It's part of the political calculation," Mr. Harrison says. "The thinking is, 'If we go ahead and get out in front of this and we say here are the real things we'll cut that get us down to [the target budget], and you know what, I'm going to do it in a targeted, strategic way that makes the best of what you're giving me,' then that's going to start to look attractive to people in Congress and may actually make it more likely to occur."
Gamesmanship aside, not planning for such a contingency isn't wise, he says. "Where I would tweak them is, at least be doing [planning] in the background. At least have that secret team down in the basement of the Pentagon who's really working on this plan.
"Maybe they have that, or maybe they're going to get that team going soon," he adds, hopefully.
Pentagon officials, however, insist that they do not have a covert planning team. "I'll raise my right hand – we are not planning," Mr. Hale, the Pentagon's comptroller, says. "I think I'd know it if we were."


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- 1. Tell the history of papermaking. Describe the part paper products play in our society and economy.
- 2. List the trees that are the major sources of papermaking fibers. Then discuss what other uses are made of the trees and of the forestland owned by the pulp and paper industry. Describe the ways the industry plants, grows, and harvests trees. Explain how the industry manages its forests so that the supply of trees keeps pace with the demand, and tell about one way the industry has incorporated a sustainable forestry concept. Give two ways the papermaking industry has addressed pollution.
- 3. Describe two ways of getting fibers from wood, and explain the major differences. Tell why some pulps are bleached, and describe this process.
- 4. Describe how paper is made. Discuss how paper is recycled. Make a sheet of paper by hand.
- 5. Explain what coated paper is and why it is coated. Describe the major uses for different kinds of coated paper. Describe one other way that paper is changed by chemical or mechanical means to make new uses possible?
- 6. Make a list of 15 pulp or paper products found in your home. Share examples of 10 such products with your counselor.
- 7. With your parent's and counselor's approval, do ONE of the following:
- a. Visit a pulp mill. Describe how the mill converts wood to cellulose fibers.
- b. Visit a paper mill and get a sample of the paper made there. Describe the processes used for making this paper. Tell how it will be used.
- c. Visit a container plant or box plant. Describe how the plant's products are made.
- d. Visit a recycled paper collection or sorting facility. Describe the operations there.
- e. Using books, magazines, your local library, the Internet (with your parent's permission), and any other suitable research tool, find out how paper products are developed. Find out what role research and development play in the papermaking industry. Share what you learn with your counselor.
- 8. Find out about three career opportunities in the papermaking industry that interest you. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.
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MPAA Boss Chris Dodd Then & Now Concerning Google Censorship In China
from the how-much-does-it-cost-to-get-an-ex-senator-to-sell-his-soul deptLast week, we quoted ex-Senator now MPAA-boss, Chris Dodd making somewhat surprising comments suggesting that it's fine to force Google to censor the internet at home, because the Chinese government made Google censor its results in China. His specific quote:
"When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites."That's an interesting statement, because almost exactly four years ago, when Chris Dodd was still a Senator and was also an aspiring Presidential hopeful, he went and gave a talk at Google. He discussed many things over the course of an hour, with one key point being that, for the sake of greater internet freedom, Google should stand up to the Chinese and not allow such censorship:
Tell the Chinese government that Google.cn will no longer censor information with Google's consent. And should the Chinese government not find that acceptable, then Google.cn would shut down its operations. I understand that you've already moved all of your search records out of China, to prevent them from being turned over to the Chinese government. But what better way to affirm Google's commitment to the free flow of information as a human right, than to send this message to a nation with the largest population in the world?From there, he goes on to talk about refusing to hand over information to our own government without a warrant, followed up by this statement:
When Google acts, others will follow in my view. Standing up in these instances will not only be good for business ethics, but I also believe it will be good for business.Yet, when Google does stand up against censoring the internet today? The very same Chris Dodd says they're "accessories" to a robbery.
As Darwin said years ago, it's not the strongest of the species who survive, or even the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.Hey, Chris, perhaps it's time to look a bit at the MPAA, one of the organizations most resistant to change we've ever seen.
One way we respond to change, in my view, is to stand up, and to stand up for our principles, which do not change.Unless, of course, the MPAA hires you for a salary upwards of a million dollars. Then your principles go right out the window and your commitment to not censoring search results does a 180, and suddenly you're demanding that Google censor results at home, and highlighting the censorship in China as if it's a positive example.
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Al Qaeda in Syria kills rival rebel leader
BEIRUT - Al Qaeda fighters killed the leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near Syria's northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting in the country's brutal civil war even as government forces continued their intense shelling of opposition-held areas of the city on Sunday.
Syrian aircraft bombed buildings, burying people underneath rubble in the Bab Neirab area, said the Aleppo Media Center. It wasn't immediately clear how many casualties there were.
The bombings came after military aircraft dropped barrels packed with explosives over rebel-held areas on Saturday, killing dozens, including an attack that killed 34 people in the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Bab, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The group collates the country's war death toll.
Syrian forces have inched into eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo in recent weeks, their most important advance there since rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad seized the areas in mid-2012.
Activists say the troops' advance has been mostly been propelled by military aircraft heavily bombing residential areas, smashing buildings into rubble, forcing civilians and rebels to flee.
They've also been assisted by weeks of rebel infighting that has pitted a loose alliance of Syrian fighters against al Qaeda linked extremists of the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant.
Fighting was likely to be exacerbated further after Islamic State fighters undertook a twin suicide bombing that killed 26 people on Saturday, including the military leader of a rebel group.
The attack targeted the base of rivals, the Tawheed Brigades, and killed commander Adnan Bakkour, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Observatory.
The al Qaeda linked Islamic State also killed another prominent commander of another rebel brigade, said analyst Charles Lister of the Brookings Doha Center.
Lister said the extremists killed Abu Hussein al-Dik of the powerful Suqour al-Sham, showing that the Islamic State was targeting key headquarters, "strategic checkpoints and senior influential commanders."
Syria's war, which began as a peaceful uprising in March 2011, has slowly spread to neighboring Lebanon in a myriad of ways.
Late Saturday, a shadowy Lebanese extremist group claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing in a Shiite town that killed at least three people, in an attack linked to the war in Syria.
The Nusra Front in Lebanon said on Twitter that the bombing in the northeast town of Hermel on Saturday was to punish the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which fights alongside forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
It is the third bombing that the Nusra Front in Lebanon claimed responsibility for in the country.
A series of bombings have targeted Shiite Muslims in Lebanon as Hezbollah's participation in the Syrian war exacerbates sectarian tensions at home. Extremist Lebanese Sunni Muslims now view their Shiite brethren as legitimate targets because they support Hezbollah. The bombing occurred Saturday evening.
The war has also become increasingly sectarian, with extremist groups blamed for attacks against Syria's many minority faiths.
Also Sunday, a group that supports militants posted a video to social networks showing a Sunni fighter beheading another man as adults and children gathered to watch.
In the video, adults cheer as the fighter cuts the other man's head off with a small knife.
The beheaded man's hands are tied, and it isn't clear if he was alive while he was being beheaded. The men's accents and languages suggest the fighters are a mix of Russian-speakers, foreign Arabs and Syrians.
Abdurrahman of the Observatory said Sunday that the video was likely filmed in the central Syrian province of Homs last week.
Photos of the body and severed head were also posted to a separate Instagram account by a supporter of the al Qaeda linked Islamic State. The photograph showed another decapitated body nearby.
The video underscores why many among Syria's Christian and Muslim minorities support Assad in the three-year uprising against his rule, fearing extremist militants will ultimately prevail should Assad fall.


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The fall of teachers unions
As the two big national teachers unions prepare for their conventions this summer, they are struggling to navigate one of the most tumultuous moments in their history.
Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once-loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.
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They took a big hit Tuesday when a California judge struck down five laws they had championed to protect teachers' jobs. The Supreme Court could deliver more bad news as early as next week, in a case that could knock a huge hole in union budgets. On top of all that, several well-funded advocacy groups out to curb union influence are launching new efforts to mobilize parents to the cause.
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Responding to all these challenges has proved difficult, analysts say, because both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers are divided internally. There's a faction urging conciliation and compromise. Another faction pushes confrontation. There's even a militant splinter group, the Badass Teachers Association.
Leaders of both the NEA and AFT have sought to rally the public to their side by talking up their vision for improving public education: More arts classes and fewer standardized tests, more equitable funding and fewer school closures. Those are popular stances. But union leaders can't spend all their time promoting them: They must also represent their members. And that's meant publicly defending laws that strike even many liberals as wrong-headed, such as requiring districts to lay off their most junior teachers first, regardless of how effective they are in the classroom.
The result: an unprecedented erosion of both political and public support for unions. And no clear path for labor leaders to win it back.
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"People increasingly view teachers unions as a problem, or the problem," David Menefee-Libey, a politics professor at Pomona College who studies education politics. That's a striking shift, he said, because "for decades the unions were viewed as the most likely to contribute to the improvement of public education."
Winter Hall, the mother of a 7-year-old in a Los Angeles public school, echoed that sentiment.
"Whenever there are teachers unions, it always comes off like the unions serve themselves — like it's not about the education of the children," she said.
Eager to push back, Hall helped organize a "parent union" at her daughter's school, with help from the nonprofit Parent Revolution, which has received millions in funding from some of the nation's richest philanthropies to organize moms and dads into a counterweight to teachers unions. She said it wasn't a hard sell.
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"I know tons of parents that are frustrated," Hall said.
Teachers unions still have too much money and too many members to be counted out. Collectively, they represent 3.8 million workers and retirees. They bring in more than $2 billion a year.
Yet the share of Americans who see teachers unions as a negative influence on public schools shot up to 43 percent last year, up from 31 percent in 2009, according to national polling conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance and the journal Education Next. By contrast, 32 percent see unions as a positive force, up from 28 percent in 2009, the poll found.
Labor's fading clout was evident earlier this month in the California primary, when unions representing teachers and other public sector workers spent nearly $5 million to boost state Superintendent Tom Torlakson to a second term — but failed to bring in enough votes for him to win outright.
Instead, Torlakson will have to fight for his seat in a runoff against a fellow Democrat, former charter school executive Marshall Tuck, who has bucked the teachers unions on many issues — and who has been endorsed by every major newspaper in California. In backing Tuck, most of the editorial boards specifically cited the urgent need to curb union influence.
Another sign of the shifting sands: the ruling this week in Vergara v. California striking down laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers. In a withering opinion, Judge Rolf M. Treu essentially blamed the unions for depriving minority children, in particular, of a quality education by shielding incompetent teachers from dismissal.
The unions argue that the laws in question simply guarantee teachers due process. They plan to appeal. But the judge's rhetoric clearly hit a nerve. Education Secretary Arne Duncan hailed the ruling. So did Rep. George Miller, a leading Democratic voice on education policy in Congress. He called the union policies "indefensible." A New York Times editorial went further, referring to the laws the unions had defended as "shameful," "anachronistic" and straight-up "stupidity."
Even Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), a veteran classroom teacher who strongly backs unions, said he was "open to reviewing and adjusting tenure laws," though he called the ruling "disappointing."
Ben Austin, a veteran Democratic operative who served in the Clinton White House, said the ruling was bound to make liberals uneasy about sticking by unions.
"It will be very difficult for Democrats to make the case that they are on the side of civil rights and social justice if they are defending unconstitutional laws that objectively harm poor kids and children of color," said Austin, who serves on the board of Students Matter, the organization that brought the lawsuit.
Union leaders may be even more anxious about the upcoming Supreme Court case, Harris v. Quinn. Several of the conservative justices hinted during opening arguments that they might use the case to overturn a four-decades-old precedent that requires workers to pay dues if they benefit from a union's collective bargaining work, even if they don't officially join the union. That could slice away a big chunk of union revenue.
Already, the National Education Association has lost 230,000 members, or 7 percent of its membership, in the past few years and is projecting a further decline this year. The American Federation of Teachers, meanwhile, has seen revenue slip.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel acknowledges that these are difficult times.
But he says he's also confident that unions will not only survive, but thrive, because they give voice to teachers — and through teachers, to students.
Union foes, he said, "just want to silence that voice."
Van Roekel posted a video response to this article on Friday afternoon. He told his members the union would keep fighting in the face of political attacks.
"It's easy to get discouraged when the rhetoric of our opponents dominates the headlines and the airwaves," he said in the video. "But I, like you, don't look at the world through the pages of USA Today or the headlines in POLITICO."
Van Roekel said he sees the world through the eyes of students and teachers, so instead of giving up, he gets angry.
"I have a message for those people who would seek to reduce children to a test score and teaching to a technological transaction. You are mistaken if you think we will see your attacks and get discouraged, that we will read the headlines and give up," he said. "This association won't give up until we have brought together everyone who believes in the promise of great public schools for all and we've declared victory for our kids."
In many capital cities, the headquarters for the teachers union occupies prime real estate within a block or two of the statehouse.
That's just one indication of the unions' historic clout.


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2 killed, 2 hurt by avalanche in eastern Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An avalanche in the Wallowa Mountains of eastern Oregon killed two backcountry skiers and seriously injured two others Tuesday, officials said.
Low clouds and poor visibility grounded a rescue effort for the injured skiers late Tuesday night, Baker County Undersheriff Warren Thompson said. Two medics were with the man and woman.
Four unhurt skiers from the party of eight were being brought out by snowcat, a large tracked vehicle that can maneuver on snow. Thompson said the four were being taken to the small town of Halfway, about 10 miles from the avalanche site.
The snowcat was unable to reach the injured skiers because of the incline of the slope they were on, the undersheriff said. The injured woman suffered two broken legs and a shoulder injury while the man had a broken thigh bone, Thompson said.
Two National Guard helicopters, one each from Oregon and Idaho, planned to overnight at the Baker City airport and hoped to resume rescue efforts at first light Wednesday, Thompson said. Ground rescue crews were also working to get closer to the site.
Most of the skiers were from the Seattle area. Officials weren't releasing names until relatives could be notified.
The avalanche hit at about noon Tuesday as the eight skied in the remote and mountainous area near Cornucopia, Baker County Sheriff Mitch Southwick said in a statement.
Connelly Brown, the owner of Wallowa Alpine Huts, said the skiers were part of a backcountry skiing group organized by his Joseph-based company. The group included two guides and six skiers.
Brown said a guide contacted him by cellphone after the avalanche hit, reporting two possible fatalities and two skiers with broken legs. The skiers were on a guided five-day, four-night trip, he said.
The avalanche came down on the third day of the trip, Brown said. Later that night, as on previous nights, the group planned to sleep at the Schneider Cabin, a historic miners' log cabin on the south side of Cornucopia Peak.
Brown said the clients and the guides are all "fit, proficient downhill skiers." The guides were certified by the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education and trained by the American Mountain Guide Association, he said.
"From the description, it sounded like they were traveling and the avalanche came from above and caught them by surprise," Brown said.
The avalanche occurred in the southern part of the Wallowa Mountains, near the Idaho border. The Wallowas are known as the "Alps of Oregon." With their rocky peaks and deep ravines, the mountains are popular with backcountry skiers, hikers and horseback riders.
A bulletin from the Wallowa Avalanche Center on Thursday warned that "new snow is not bonding well to the old surface." The bulletin mentioned a recent report from the southern Wallowas of a skier triggering a small avalanche in which no one was caught.
The deaths mean at least 12 people have died in avalanches nationally this season, including six since Sunday. Kevin Kuybus, 46, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., was found dead Tuesday after an avalanche outside a Colorado ski area. Another avalanche near Kebler Pass, Colo., killed a snowmobiler Monday, and two people died in slides in Utah over the weekend.
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By KELSI LOOS
WASHINGTON - Stephanie Cohen, CEO of Golden & Cohen, a Gaithersburg-based insurance brokerage firm, for 23 years; and Ann Mitchell, CEO of Montgomery Hospice in Rockville for 14 years, are the facts behind the statistics: More women in Maryland worked as managers relative to other states in 2010.
According to census data released Thursday, the portion of female managers and officials was 44.9 percent in Maryland, 4.3 points higher than the nation as a whole. The state ranked behind only Alaska in the proportion of women workers in that category.
The fact that female managers are well-represented in Maryland does not mean that it has always been easy for Cohen and Mitchell to lead as women.
Cohen said when she opened her firm, the insurance field was dominated by men. She said she felt she had to act differently as a women. She had to be careful how she behaved during disputes to avoid being considered "inappropriate or hysterical."
"You have to prove yourself more as a women, and yet you have to be more calm," she said.
Mitchell had less difficulty as CEO of a hospice because many other leaders in her field are also women, she said.
Maryland's progressive nature, large public sector and access to education are most likely responsible for the high portion of women in managerial positions, said Cecilia Rio, associate professor of women's studies at Towson University.
Rio said there has been a nationwide trend toward more women in management since the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity law in the 1960s, but Maryland has often been at the forefront of equal pay causes, which could explain the higher ratio of female managers.
Mitchell also said that a progressive culture has encouraged women leaders in business.
"There is more gender equality in this state than I've seen elsewhere," she said, adding that the types of businesses common in Maryland often have female managers.
She has noticed that female CEOs are more prevalent in the hospice field and in nonprofits in general, which are well represented in Maryland.
Rita Marinho, professor of women and gender studies at Towson University, explained that the nonprofit fields have a history of attracting female employees stretching back to the founding of YWCA. The nonprofit sector is often more alert to the needs of women workers, who may miss work due to pregnancy or to care for family, she said.
Economic pressures also help to move women to lead business, said Cohen, because the high cost of living in Maryland would push women to enter the workforce and seek high-paying leadership positions.
"Women have to work in order to live in an area that is thriving, and it tends to be more expensive," she said.
Maintaining a family with both parents in the workforce or as a single mother can make heading a company even more challenging. Cohen has a teenage son and daughter and said that balancing work and home responsibilities can be tough at times.
"It is hard to juggle everything. You have to have your children understand that the reason you're working so hard is for them," she said. "They have to understand why their mom isn't picking them up at school like the other moms."
Mitchell takes care of her mother and admits that it has also been challenging to look after both her family and her business. Both Cohen and Mitchell said their husbands help with family responsibilities.
The census statistic may seem like a sign of heightened equality between the sexes, but Rio said that on the whole, the "vast majority of women are hurting now." She cautioned against making too much of the fact that women are becoming better represented in management.
The lowest-paying jobs with the fewest benefits are also more frequently being done by women, she said.
"There is a polarizing going on in the labor market," Rio said, adding, "Things are getting better for some women. For jobs that are associated with credentials and degrees it is a very good time for women but for other women, it is not such a good time."
Rio said that minority women, in particular, are underrepresented in the upper ranks of business.
Even when they do reach the top levels of their field, women still do not fare as well as men economically. Female managers earn an average of just 73 percent of what male managers earn, the New York Times reported.
Still, the fact that women in Maryland are becoming economic leaders was good news to Mitchell.
"We need to make sure that women are promoted for their capability and aptitude and not be left behind."


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Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003 | 11:20 a.m.
High-level Metro Police brass received rave reviews from beat cops Tuesday on a pilot project only weeks old involving the nonlethal weapon known as a Taser.
The meeting came the day after two officers shot and killed 21-year-old Charles M. Rorie III, a robbery suspect, in southwest Las Vegas. Rorie was accused of stealing a bottle of Olde English 800 malt liquor from a convenience store. He then allegedly lunged at two officers with a knife before both of them shot him.
Metro has been testing the Tasers, which shock whoever is shot by it, in a pilot program in the South Central Area Command.
The officers who shot Rorie didn't have the Tasers. They were not in the area command which is trying the Tasers, but Monday's shooting highlighted the need to move the program forward, Metro Deputy Chief Carl Fruge said.
"I'm not sure (the Taser) would have been the right weapon in the incident ... but it would have been available to the officers as one more option," said Fruge, who oversees the South Central command.
Being careful not to second guess the incident, the shooting of Rorie "does give us a sense of urgency" to get Tasers in the hands of officers, he said.
The Metro review had been previously scheduled to look at a program that has trained 107 officers, 16 sergeants and four lieutenants in the South Central Area Command in the last month how to use a Taser. The weapon sends 50,000 volts of electricity through the body, immobilizing whoever receives the shock without causing injury.
Tasers have reduced shootings by officers in other departments, Fruge said. Metro is part of "a wave of police agencies across the nation" adopting the weapon, Fruge said.
Hong Lu, associate professor in the criminal justice department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said the overall trend of attempting to reduce the use of force can be seen as "part of an ongoing public relations campaign to make the police look good ... that began in the 1980s when we started to be aware of how police officers act in the community and on the street and began hearing about police shooting civilians."
Locally the Henderson Police Department has been phasing Tasers into use during the past two years, with about 45 now in use, spokesman Shane Lewis said.
The North Las Vegas Police Department has begun a 90-day pilot program in the last two weeks, testing the weapon with six officers, spokesman Justin Roberts said. In addition, North Las Vegas Municipal Court bailiffs began using Tasers in June.
Monday's fatal shooting was the seventh in the year to date by a Metro officer -- equaling the total for 2002. Metro officers shot and killed six people in 2001.
Metro Sheriff Bill Young has pushed Tasers as one of the changes to the department's use of force policy announced in May. In addition to the pilot project, which included the purchase of about 60 Tasers, Metro obtained a $371,000 grant last month and will match that money with a smaller amount to purchase about 350 more Tasers in the coming months, said Undersheriff Doug Gillespie. Metro has about 1,100 officers on patrol.
There are delays in using the grant, however, and Monday's incident highlighted the need to move the project along as soon as possible, Fruge said.
The meeting on the pilot project included three deputy chiefs, other high-level personnel and some of the officers who have used the Taser in recent weeks.
During that time officers with South Central have used the Taser 11 times, Fruge said.
"The results are very promising and there were no injuries except for a small laceration in one case when a suspect fell to the ground," Fruge said.
"In each situation, the potential for much more harm was dramatic -- in one case, an officer struggled for control with a suspect who had knives."
In the one incident where North Las Vegas officers used the weapon since that department began testing the weapon Aug. 28, the situation also involved a suspected robber in a convenience store who had a knife.
"(The Taser) worked wonderfully ... It saved (the suspect's) life," said North Las Vegas spokesman Justin Roberts.
Gary Peck, executive director for the Nevada chapter of the ACLU, said Metro's review of their use of force and interest in Tasers were both laudable.
"I commend the department for taking the issue of use of force as serious as it is ... (and) in principle, Tasers are probably a good idea assuming the proper training goes along with it," he said.
At the same time, however, Peck thought that 11 incidents involving the Taser in a few weeks seemed like a high number.
"This is a level of force that should be used only in appropriate circumstances," he said. "Absent these Tasers, what would the officers have done to control the situations?"
In Monday's shooting, Rorie was within seven to 10 feet of the two officers, Metro Capt. Tom Lozich said. Eric Ellson, one of four witnesses, told the Sun that Rorie had an eight-inch serrated bread knife. The officers -- whose names are being withheld for 48 hours as per department policy -- fired "multiple shots" at Rorie after he disobeyed their orders to stop, Lozich said.
The Taser gun is effective at distances up to 21 feet, but Lozich wouldn't say whether the weapon would have been useful in Monday's incident.
"This guy's using deadly force, and you've got to act accordingly -- I can't speculate on the use of a Taser," he said.
Despite the glowing reports given the Taser in Tuesday's meeting, the timeline for getting more of the nonlethal weapons into the hands of Metro officers was also a matter of speculation.
Fruge said the money for the Tasers, which came from a Clark County Local Law Enforcement Block Grant, had not yet been disbursed, and he wasn't sure when the funds would be available to Metro.
Still -- "if everything goes right" -- about 400 Tasers should be in use department-wide by the first few months of 2004, he said.
Gillespie said the holdup was due to high demand for the newest model of Taser, manufactured by a company based in Arizona. He said Metro had already placed an order "in the area of 400" Tasers but wouldn't know for another month when the weapons would be shipped.
After the weapons arrive and officers are trained, there should be a Taser with every Metro squad car on any given shift, he said.
Meanwhile, the two officers involved in Monday's shooting will be on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest which will determine if the shooting was justified.
An employee at the Chevron convenience store on Durango Drive and Spring Mountain Road Tuesday night said his fellow employees who were in the store Monday had taken the day off because they "were pretty upset."
"They didn't think the outcome would be what it was ... and that it would end in death," he said, before excusing himself and hanging up the phone.


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The Goodguys Lone Star Nationals, Take 13
My first assignment when I took the helm of CLASSIC TRUCKS just a year ago was to cover the Goodguys Lone Star Nationals in Fort Worth, Texas. I welcomed the task, not just because I love the great state of Texas, but because I was going to be amidst some of the best trucks in the nation vying for the coveted Truck of the Year awards (Early and Late editions) presented at the show. As it turned out, the corral of trucks, new and old, was astounding, and the show was a great way to get my feet wet.
Here we are a year later, and the Lone Star event was upon us once again. I was all set to go, but unlike the year prior, I was not to cover the Truck of the Year competition. To the dismay of some–and the pleasure of others outside of Texas–the awarding procedure changed for 2005. The new format, which affected other "of the year"-type awards, allows for the judging to be spread out across the country, ultimately giving those who were previously not geologically able to compete a chance to, well, compete. So, instead of all the finalists being chosen and awarded at Fort Worth, just one finalist for Truck of the Year: Late was selected, as the Early winner had already been selected and announced online the Friday of the event. The actual winner of the Late category was chosen at a later date and announced online, as well. Both winners will have been invited to attend the Scottsdale event held in November, where we will have wrapped up our 2005 Top Ten program. (Note that everything is worded in past tense because by the time you read this, all will be said and done!) Make sense? Hopefully, as we need to get on with the show.
While I initially expected a smaller turnout of trucks due to the new awarding format, I was pleasantly surprised to see an overwhelming amount of classic pickups on hand at the 13th Lone Star Nats. Whether or not that was because of the lack of knowledge of the new rules, or that people just didn't care, it didn't matter–I was once again among a strong showing of trucks of all shapes, sizes, colors, and orientations. Things were looking good from the start, and as fate would have it, that continued on through the weekend.
CLASSIC TRUCKS completed its fourth of five Top Ten selections for the year, and while there was a bit of competition from another magazine, there was no compromising when it came to choosing the coolest trucks on hand. On top of that, the Dallas-Fort Worth area was spared any real terrible aftereffects from Hurricane Rita, so attendees and participants all enjoyed a full weekend of great weather. Texas Motor Speedway was definitely the place to be the first weekend of October, that's for sure.
Pending our selection of Top Ten venues for 2006, chances are good that I will celebrate my second anniversary as editor of CLASSIC TRUCKS next year in the great state of Texas!
Goodguys Lone Star Top Ten


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BOSTON, Mass. – After pulling off one of the most surprising championship runs in program history UMass Boston will be heading to Holland, Michigan to take on the Captains of Christopher Newport University on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. on the campus of Hope College.
A live video feed will be available for every match in this year's tournament as well as a live stats feed. Both links can be accessed through the tournament's home page at http://www.hope.edu/pr/athletics/vbchampionship/index.html. Fans can also follow all the action via twitter at @UMassBeacons.
The Beacons will be making their second trip to the national stage under head coach Terry Condon. UMass made their first appearance in the national tournament back in 2010, after handing Springfield College a 3-2 loss in the regional championship. That year the Beacons faced top-seeded and eventual national champions Calvin College in the opening round of the tournament. The Beacons enter this year's national tournament with a 20-11 record overall.
The Beacons secured their second trip to the national tournament following a thrilling 3-2 win over Bowdoin College yesterday afternoon at Connecticut College. Definitely the underdog throughout the 2012 regional tournament, the Beacons toppled first-time tournament participant MIT on Friday by the final of 3-1. They then knocked off the top-seed Camels of Connecticut College in a nail-biter of a match. UMass would steal the 3-2 win from the host Camels to advance to their third straight championship match.
In Sunday's showdown the Beacons faced the Polar Bears of Bowdoin College and after going set-for-set, UMass would shock the entire New England region by defeating the favorite Polar Bears by the final of 3-2. UMass Boston now holds an 8-2 record in NCAA Regional Tournament play.
This Thursday's match will mark only the second time that UMass and Christopher Newport have faced each other. Their first match took place earlier this year when the Captains competed in the Beacons Invitational.
In their first-ever meeting UMass saw senior Shannon Thompson (Moorpark, Calif.) finish with a match-high 15 kills. Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Kayla Wilson (San Jose, Calif.) finished with 15 and 10 digs respectively.
For the Captains they were led by All-American middle Bailey Jensen who finished with eight kills and two block assists. Cory Harris and Jessie Kolden also led CNU to the win combining for 19 kills respectively. Setter Alyssa Kidd was solid all contest with her 29 assists, while defensive specialist Abby Hogge totaled a match-high 25 digs.
To say the 2012 season was the most challenging schedule ever assembled would be an understatement. This season UMass faced a slew of nationally and regionally ranked opponents. Amongst the teams they faced, especially in the month of October were CNU, Emory University, Wittenberg College, Washington and Lee University and Bowdoin. Still with all the challenges put in front of them the Beacons managed to keep fighting with their efforts paying off in the form of a LEC regular season and tournament title and of course the regional championship as well.
For the fourth straight season UMass Boston dominated the Little East Conference. Even with a small hiccup towards the end of the regular season, the Beacons knew they were the top team in the conference. After posting a 6-1 record overall, UMB earned the top-seed in the conference tournament, and despite not playing on their home court defeated both Rhode Island College (3-0) and Keene State College (3-1) in dominant fashion.
Once the season was over, Thompson was once again crowned the LEC's top offensive player, becoming the first player in the history of the LEC to be named Rookie of the Year and then three-time Offensive Player of the Year. She also became the first player in school history to be named a four-time First Team All-Conference selection. Setter Emma Rocha became the fourth consecutive player to earn Rookie of the Year honors as well as finding a spot on the Second Team All-Conference.
Wilson earned First Team honors alongside Thompson, while Porter and Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) each earned a spot on the Second Team.
Throughout the 2012 season the Beacons have looked to Thompson to lead their offense. Going into the national tournament, the California native sits first on the team in total kills with 427, kills per game with 3.85 and currently boasts a .278 attack percentage. Her 92 blocks leads the Beacons defensive effort, with 19 of those marked down as solo blocks. The all-time leader at UMass Boston in multiple categories, Thompson remains the only player in program history to be named a three-time AVCA All-American.
Also helping to anchor the Beacons offense and defense has been Porter. To date, the junior hitter sits second on the team with 210 kills (1.89 kpg) and is second in digs with 372 (3.35 dps). During the NCAA regional tournament, Porter became on the only third player in program history to surpass the 1,000 dig mark and currently sits just 73 digs from thing the first player to break the 1,000 point dig mark in Megan MacAuley (1,110 career digs). Thompson currently stands as the all-time leader in digs with 1,202.
This season head coach Terry Condon has looked to a pair of setters to fill the hole left by All-American Cassy Hanneman '12. The young duo of Rocha and Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) have worked tirelessly throughout the year. Rocha currently leads the Beacons with 650 assists (5.70 apg), while Pollock currently stands with 416 assists (3.68 apg) this season.
Defensively the Beacons have relied heavily on both Wilson and Porter to get the crucial digs this season. Wilson, who earned All-Tournament honors this past weekend, leads the squad with 473 digs. At the net it has been Thompson, Molly Witzmann (Encinitas, Calif.) and Morrison who have earned a majority of UMB's blocks. Morrison sits second on the team with 67 rejections, while Witzmann is in third with 64. Junior Amber Clemons (Simi Valley, Calif.) has also helped the Beacons at the net with 32 blocks.
On Sunday, Christopher Newport defeated Emory University to earn their fourth straight NCAA Regional title. The Captains were pushed to the limit in what was a back-and-forth five set marathon.
Four different Captains finished in double-figures in kills with Jensen leading the way with a team-best 17. She also posted a match-best .412 hitting percentage to fuel CNU's offense. Christie Fellows and Kolden finished second on the team with 14 kills each, while Chastity Lacy finished with 10. Kidd tallied match-high 52 assists. Hogge dominated the digs column tallying 22 in the win. As a team, CNU finished with two solo blocks and 12 block assists.
Christopher Newport is no stranger to competing at the national stage as they advanced to the championship match last season, before falling to Wittenberg by the final of 3-0. The Captains enter this year's tournament with a 39-2 record overall. Their 39 victories marks the most of any team competing in Michigan this week, while their two losses are second fewest only to St. Thomas University (MN) who enters this year's tournament with a 37-1 record.


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Looking for information on Thomas P. Martin b 1822, Ireland, and lived in Bexar, Texas abt 1860
I am looking for Thomas P. Martin who imigrated on 4 May, 1842 from Liverpool, Great Britain to New York with brothers and sisters--John, James, Peter, Ann, Mary,and Margaret. There was also a Bridget Martin with them who was born in 1802, making her older than everyone else in the family by 17 years. I think she may have actually been there Mother.
From there I have been unable to track any of the other siblings or Bridget with the exception of Thomas P. Martin who I found in Franklin, St Marys Parish, Louisiana in 1850. He was married to a Jane Irene Pooley and had a daughter by the name of Jenney. Jane was listed as Mary Jane--Maybe a mistake. I have an actual letter from Thomas naming his wife as Jane Irene from the same year as the 1850 Census.
The next time I find the family is in the 1860 Bexar, Texas Census now with Jenney, Robert, Thomas, and Mary for children. I also have them in the 1870 Census in Bexar with additional children of Jefferson Davis, Willy, and John, but Thomas P. is now listed as being widowed. The last time I found the family was in the 1880 Census for the same county and he is living with sons Willy and John.
I have additional information and more recent census records for Jefferson Davis who is my ggGrandfather, and for his brothers Thomas and John.
If anyone has any additional information on this family I would dearly love to hear about it--Thanks
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The dangerous and salacious world of sexting may be getting a little cleaner.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has approved a 2008 patent that prevents users from sending "forbidden content" via text message.
The official wording in the "Text-based Communication Control for Personal Communication Device" patent states that "objectionable content" will be removed from the message before it's sent.
To kids in the care of a concerned adult, that mean no more sexting.
But how does the iPhone sniff out "objectionable" texts? Parents add the nasty words to a filtering system -- and just like that, the red flag goes up and the message is halted.
Here's the patent as written in legalese. It's actually quite entertaining to see just how grown-up the world of "sexting" can sound in bulletpoints referring to "the device of claim ..." and "embodiments."


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Kia Previews Super Bowl Ad in Theaters
(NEW YORK) -- Kia is taking to the big screen to preview its Super Bowl ad for the second year in a row.
Viewers got their first look at a teaser for the ad Friday online and in movie theaters.
The complete ad spot, called "Space Babies," will be shown in movie theaters on Feb. 1 and 2 before Super Bowl 2013 on Feb. 3.
The full ad will be 60 seconds long and was helmed by British director Jake Scott, who has mostly worked on music videos. Scott is the nephew of the late film director Tony Scott, who directed Top Gun.
"As the marketing event of the year, the Super Bowl is a high-profile platform that Kia has used very successfully in each of the last three years to launch new vehicles and raise consumer awareness and perception for the brand," Michael Sprague, Kia's executive vice president, said in a statement.
In its Super Bowl ad last year, Kia featured supermodel Adriana Lima and rock band Motley Crue.
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A forgotten milestone
Huw Richards
April 23, 2010
The great Doug Hopwood made his Springbok bow against Scotland in 1960 © Getty Images
The Springboks v Scotland match played in Port Elizabeth 50 years ago next week has tended not to figure very largely in historical recall.
Within matches between the two it lacks the resonance of its immediate predecessor - the 44-0 shellacking handed out by the Boks in the 'lucky to get nil' match at Murrayfield in 1951. For South African rugby fans the stronger associations of 1960 are the All Black series that followed, with a victory to repay the loss in New Zealand four years earlier, the success of Avril Malan's touring team in Britain and the first serious stirrings of anti-apartheid proTestfollowing the Sharpeville massacre.
Yet if setting precedents that are followed is a measure of significance, it must be regarded as one of the most important of all international matches. Scotland's trip to South Africa, lasting only three matches including a single Test, was the first ever 'short tour'. It broke the previous assumption that if an international tour was worth doing at all, it was worth taking several months over it. The first visit by a single home nation to the southern hemisphere, it created the pattern that increasingly became the standard form for north-south competition.
A.C.Parker in his Springbok history (1970) attributes their invention to South African Board president Danie Craven, concerned that without international matches his top players might follow the path beaten by Tom van Vollenhoven and Wilf Rosenberg to lucrative rugby league contracts. The Scotland match was also seen as a useful tune-up for a Bok team that had no played in two years, since its historic series loss at home to the touring French.
It was also the first ever Test at Boet Erasmus, a venue that has over the years become a Springbok favourite, with a success rate there of more than 90 per cent in 16 matches. The 1974 British Lions, in a match remembered for two brilliant tries by J.J.Williams, are the only visitors to have departed victorious, their predecessors of 1968 the only other touring team to have escaped defeat.
The Springboks named 10 new caps, among whom lock Martiens Bekker was following older brothers Jaap and Dolf into the green jersey. Clan connections were, suitably enough for a match involving Scotland, something of a feature of both teams. Scottish fullback Robin Chisholm and lock Tom Grant both had younger brothers, David and Derrick respectively, who would follow them in international rugby, Springbok hooker Bertus van der Merwe was emulating his uncle Alfred and Scotland's captain Gordon Waddell was following in the footsteps of his father Herbert - by 1960 representing Scotland on the International Board - by leading his country from outside-half.
His counterpart as the coin was tossed before kick-off was another of the Springbok debutants Des van Jaarsveldt, a 31 year old Rhodesian who had been on the verge of selection for the best part of a decade, playing in the final trials for the 1951 and 1956 touring teams but missing out both teams. He has little doubt he was a victim of the dominance of South African rugby by the Afrikaaner Broderbond, years later telling Edward Griffiths: "I reckoned my face and language didn't fit".
Griffiths implies that his selection may have been Craven - never a broeder, but an operator within a system controlled by them - guiltily offering a consolation prize in a low-profile match. It made him the first Rhodesian, then part of the South African system, to lead the Springboks. Scotland, who had just finished a Five Nations season, named two new caps - Melrose back-rower Walter Hart and London Scottish centre Patrick Burnet.
Scotland began well with a try from Norman Bruce, a durable hooker who would go on to win 31 caps, then a Scottish record for the position. He and his props - Hugh McLeod and David Rollo, each of whom would go on to win 40 and jointly top Scotland's all-time list - more than held their own in the scrummages, while the lighter Scottish forwards proved quicker around the field.
What they could not do was contain Springbok scrum-half Mannetjies Gericke, also a debutant, whose breaks from close to the scrum produced three tries. The first two were scored by back rower Hennie van Zyl, with Gericke claiming the third himself. Their victory was sealed by van Jaarsveldt, picking up a loose ball near halfway and going all the way to the line himself, making experienced wing Arthur Smith's late try for Scotland merely a consolation in an 18-10 South African win. Parker was to recall it as a match that the Boks might have lost and 'far from convincing' as a rehearsal for the visit of the All Blacks.
For some it was an end as well as the beginning. Six of those new Boks, including both van Jaarsveldt and Gericke, played only that single test. So too did the two Scottish debutants. Nor was either fullback seen again, Michael Gerber playing the last of his three matches for South Africa while Robin Chisholm's 11 cap Test career was ended by the return of the brilliant Ken Scotland, who had been first choice since 1958 but was prevented from touring by studies at Cambridge University.
For others, though, it was a beginning to great international careers. Three of the new Boks were to be among their defining stars of the 1960s. Centre John Gainsford and wing Jannie Englebrecht would, like Rollo and McLeod, end their careers sharing the all-time record as their nation's most capped players. Each would win 33. No.8 Doug Hopwood would become one of the great back-rowers of the age, robbed of the captaincy only by broeder machinations.
For Waddell it proved even more of a beginning in a life that would to a great extent be shaped by South Africa. He returned with the Lions in 1962 and eventually settled in South Africa, becoming a significant figure in business and from 1974 to 1977 an MP for the opposition Progressive Federal Party before returning to Scotland in 1987.
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Two national veterans' advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, saying it discriminates against victims of military sexual trauma who are seeking VA disability benefits.
The suit was brought by Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) and Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA). They want the VA to change what they consider to be burdensome regulations governing claims for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that are based on rape, sexual assault, or sexual harassment. They cite substantial gaps between benefit approvals for these claims compared to higher approvals for other PTSD claims.
The Yale Law School Veterans Legal Clinic is representing the plaintiffs and filed the suit in federal court in Washington, D.C.
The plaintiffs are asking that the rules conform to those governing PTSD claims based on combat trauma, Prisoner of War status, and fear of hostile military or terrorist activity, which are less stringent than those based on Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and are also situations that pose difficulty in obtaining corroboratory evidence.
"The VA knows the current process makes veterans who've been harmed by military sexual harassment and assault jump through more hoops than other PTSD claimants," said Anu Bhagwati, SWAN executive director and a former Marine Corps captain.
"The result of this discrimination is that survivors of military sexual harassment and assault are denied life-saving benefits and critical income to support themselves and their families," she said.
If the rules were changed, she said, "I would think that thousands and thousands of additional veterans would be filing claims based on (sexual) assault and harassment and the VA doesn't want them to do that."
The VA wouldn't comment specifically on the lawsuit. According to a VA spokesperson, in 2002, the VA relaxed its regulation regarding MST claims, and in 2011, developed training curricula for claims specialists to help them recognize PTSD symptoms resulting from sexual trauma. Veterans denied MST benefits before the training may ask to have their cases reviewed, the spokesperson said.
But, plaintiffs said that isn't enough. Gary Jacob, SWAN policy director, said that there are still large gaps among VA regional offices in terms of MST benefit approvals. "Their sensitivity may have changed," he said. But, he added, "until a regulation is written that is consistent with other claims, there is no guarantee of the same likelihood of being approved."
Joya Sonnenfeldt, a Yale law student working on the lawsuit, said that 2013 figures the VA provided to Congress showed that about half of the 8,000 MST-related disability claims for PTSD were denied. "Many people choose not to file claims in the first place because it is so hard to prove them" under existing regulations, she said.
Daniella Rohr, another Yale Law student, said MST victims "suffered long enough." She said regulation changes would help ensure that these veterans "get the benefits that they so desperately need."
In a conference call announcing the lawsuit, a Coast Guard veteran who said she was raped twice and sexually harassed in the military more than 30 years ago, said she still suffers from severe PTSD and experiences flashbacks and intrusive memories of her rapes. She wouldn't identify herself.
Last November, SWAN, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Connecticut released a report showing that PTSD benefit claims based on military sexual trauma were approved 16 to 30 percent less than other PTSD claims. They obtained their statistics after filing two Freedom of Information lawsuits against the VA.
In June, 2013, SWAN and Vietnam Veterans of America submitted a formal petition to the VA seeking a change in the rule governing PTSD claims based on military sexual trauma. But, the VA hasn't responded.
"The VA has pushed back hard against those who all asked for this regulation to change," said Jacob, a former Marine captain.
And, "things couldn't be worse," he said. "We now know that 26,000 service members experience MST-triggered PTSD and that the majority goes unreported; that MST is a greater predictor of PTSD for women as combat service is for men; and that up until last year, the DOD (Defense Department) destroyed records of sexual assault and sexual harassment."
"Veterans are literally dying, waiting for the VA to do its job," Jacob said.
This story was reported under a partnership with the Connecticut Health I-Team (www.c-hit.org).


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A musician in David Ogle s Lumen at York St John University 2 part of illuminating York 2016 c Anthony Chappel-Ross
Photographer: Anthony Chappel-Ross for Make It York
Photographer: Anthony Chappel-Ross for Make It York
illuminating York 2016 runs from Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 October 2016. This year's festival will see illuminated artworks in locations from York Minster to National Railway Museum, Holy Trinity Church to York St John University. Key facts: • The festival gains over 50,000 'visits' every year• Over the past ten years the festival has commissioned over fifty artworks for the city• illuminating York is a member of 'Light Up the North', a network of seven light festivals taking place in cities across the North of England www.lightupthenorth.com• illuminating York was named by The Guardian in its top ten European Lighting Festivals • In 2015 the illuminating York Festival was nominated for a Dulux Colour Award • illuminating York is managed by Make It York on behalf of a city-wide steering group, chaired by Liz Page, Historic Properties Director (North) - English Heritage• The principal funder of the festival is Arts Council England, with additional funding from ticketing and private sponsors• illuminating York is organised by Make It York supported by Arts Council England. This year's partners include English Heritage, National Railway Museum, The Society of Lighting and Light, York Minster and York St John University.


text: /* crypto/evp/names.c */ /* Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (firstname.lastname@example.com) * All rights reserved. * * This package is an SSL implementation written * by Eric Young (email@example.com). * The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL. * * This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as * the following conditions are aheared to. The following conditions * apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, * lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation * included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms * except that the holder is Tim Hudson (firstname.lastname@example.com). * * Copyright remains Eric Young's, and as such any Copyright notices in * the code are not to be removed. * If this package is used in a product, Eric Young should be given attribution * as the author of the parts of the library used. * This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or * in documentation (online or textual) provided with the package. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * "This product includes cryptographic software written by * Eric Young (email@example.com)" * The word 'cryptographic' can be left out if the rouines from the library * being used are not cryptographic related :-). * 4. If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from * the apps directory (application code) you must include an acknowledgement: * "This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (firstname.lastname@example.com)" * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * * The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or * derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be * copied and put under another distribution licence * [including the GNU Public Licence.] */ #include <stdio.h> #include "cryptlib.h" #include <openssl/evp.h> #include <openssl/objects.h> #include <openssl/x509.h> int EVP_add_cipher(EVP_CIPHER *c) { int r; r=OBJ_NAME_add(OBJ_nid2sn(c->nid),OBJ_NAME_TYPE_CIPHER_METH,(char *)c); if (r == 0) return(0); r=OBJ_NAME_add(OBJ_nid2ln(c->nid),OBJ_NAME_TYPE_CIPHER_METH,(char *)c); return(r); } int EVP_add_digest(EVP_MD *md) { int r; const char *name; name=OBJ_nid2sn(md->type); r=OBJ_NAME_add(name,OBJ_NAME_TYPE_MD_METH,(char *)md); if (r == 0) return(0); r=OBJ_NAME_add(OBJ_nid2ln(md->type),OBJ_NAME_TYPE_MD_METH,(char *)md); if (r == 0) return(0); if (md->type != md->pkey_type) { r=OBJ_NAME_add(OBJ_nid2sn(md->pkey_type), OBJ_NAME_TYPE_MD_METH|OBJ_NAME_ALIAS,name); if (r == 0) return(0); r=OBJ_NAME_add(OBJ_nid2ln(md->pkey_type), OBJ_NAME_TYPE_MD_METH|OBJ_NAME_ALIAS,name); } return(r); } const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_get_cipherbyname(const char *name) { const EVP_CIPHER *cp; cp=(const EVP_CIPHER *)OBJ_NAME_get(name,OBJ_NAME_TYPE_CIPHER_METH); return(cp); } const EVP_MD *EVP_get_digestbyname(const char *name) { const EVP_MD *cp; cp=(const EVP_MD *)OBJ_NAME_get(name,OBJ_NAME_TYPE_MD_METH); return(cp); } void EVP_cleanup(void) { OBJ_NAME_cleanup(OBJ_NAME_TYPE_CIPHER_METH); OBJ_NAME_cleanup(OBJ_NAME_TYPE_MD_METH); /* The above calls will only clean out the contents of the name hash table, but not the hash table itself. The following line does that part. -- Richard Levitte */ OBJ_NAME_cleanup(-1); EVP_PBE_cleanup(); }


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$1 For This Trilogy Of Shooters On Steam--Today Only
Today only, get all three Sniper: Ghost Warrior games on PC for just a buck.
Poor AI and insane difficulty get between you and the sniping in Sniper: Ghost Warrior.
Sniping Tactics is the official Sniper: Ghost Warrior strategic guide, detailing the steps to firing a shot that will land right between the eyes of the enemy.
Today only, get all three Sniper: Ghost Warrior games on PC for just a buck.
This week sees an eclectic mix of titles including The Baconing, Fish Resort, Rock of Ages, and Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon.
Follow the sniper as he sets up the perfect headshot amidst the coverage of a lush jungle.
Guns, zombies, and fighting in streets are some of what is out this week in new releases with titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation, Super Street Fighter IV: ...
Check out this official trailer for Sniper Ghost Warrior on the PlayStation 3.
The hammer of Mjolnir and the missiles of an anime robot beckon gamers this week.
Sega takes its long-running tennis franchise into the motion-controlled arena for the first time.
$40 "upgraded" version of City Interactive's headshot-happy shooter hits Sony's home console this summer; range of system-exclusive content bundled including weapons, maps, and modes.
Exclusive PS3 missions, weapons, and levels coming soon!
Take a look at the brand-new launch trailer for Sniper: Ghost Warrior.
Check out the new and exclusive PlayStation 3 trailer for Sniper: Ghost Warrior.
City Interactive's coolly received headshot-happy shooter goes platinum since debuting on the Xbox 360 and PC in June; PlayStation 3 version targeted for March premiere.
City Interactive chief producer confirms follow-up to coolly received original; will run on CryEngine 3 and be released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
City Interactive enters worldwide licensing agreement to use Unreal Engine 3 in new first-person shooter, due out next year.
We venture back into the South American jungles in this updated PlayStation 3 version of Ghost Warrior.
This week, we take a look at some classics being revived in arcade and some more recent games now improved and on demand.
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