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New video: Helmet cam captures fatal NM standoff
Suspect had a criminal history in Albuquerque that goes back as far as 2001, including several arrests on charges of violence against officers
By Patrick Lohmann
Albuquerque Journal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Albuquerque Police Department's release Friday of a video showing part of a five-hour standoff and eventual shooting by APD of an illegal camper in the Sandia foothills has prompted a massive response from city residents, most of whom strongly criticized the officers' actions.
Residents took to social media, talk radio and local news media comment forums in droves Friday and Saturday to weigh in on APD's fatal confrontation with 38-year-old James M. Boyd last Sunday, with many commenters saying that the shooting was excessive and that they mistrust APD.
"How in the world can anybody justify this?" asked one Journal reader. "... This poor guy belonged in jail or a psych unit, not a morgue."
City Councilor Isaac Benton said in an interview that he was concerned, not only by the video, but by Police Chief Gorden Eden's comments that the shooting was justified.
"I wasn't there (at the scene of the shooting) but, from what I saw on the video, it's very concerning to me, and I don't understand why the chief would be coming out so strongly and saying it was justified," Benton told the Journal in a phone interview Saturday. "... For him to jump out in front and start talking legalisms that this thing is justified, that makes it very hard to answer all these citizens who are questioning. That's exactly what we should not be doing."
Albuquerque police said Saturday that the chief's characterization of the officer-involved shooting as "justified" was a preliminary opinion based on the initial findings of the investigation into the shooting and that the department's "final findings will be based upon the entire analysis" of evidence at the end of the investigation.
Eden held a news conference Friday, during which he released the video that was taken from a police helmet camera and described the shooting as justified.
Of more than 200 comments posted under a link to Friday's story and video on the Journal's Facebook page and website, the vast majority criticized APD. But a few defended the shooting, pointing out that Boyd was armed with knives and that he had a criminal history.
Billy "Fat Back" Cornelius devoted an hour of his call-in, radio talk show on KKOB-AM on Friday evening to the video and received more than two dozen calls. Just one caller was "100 percent" in support of officers' actions, Cornelius told the Journal, and only a couple of others were undecided.
In the video, Boyd gathered his things and began descending a hill, apparently because he believed he had reached an agreement with police to end the standoff peacefully. Officers are seen throwing a flash grenade at Boyd's feet. Boyd dropped his backpack and drew two small blades out of his sweater's front pocket before appearing to wave them. Boyd had wielded the blades in each hand at points throughout the standoff.
Police yell at him to get on the ground and Boyd starts turning away from officers.
That's when shots ring out and he hits the ground. Officers continue to yell at him to drop the knives. "Please don't hurt me anymore. I can't move," Boyd says as he lies on the ground, not moving.
Officers then fired bean-bag rounds at him and let loose a police dog, which grabs his leg and shakes it. He still lies motionless. Officers reach him and handcuff him. Boyd died the next day at a hospital.
During the Friday news conference, Eden said that he felt officers were justified in their use of lethal force because of a "directed threat" to an officer.
"Do I believe it was a justified shooting? Yes," Eden told reporters. "If you follow case law Garner vs. Tennessee, there was a directed threat to an officer."
Eden said the threat came when Boyd pulled out the two knives and directed them at the nearby K-9 officer.
"It was when the K-9 officer was down directing the K-9 that the suspect pulled out two knives and directed a threat to the K-9 officer who had no weapons drawn, he was handling the dog," the chief said.
In response to Benton's criticism, the department issued the following statement:
"The opinion expressed (Friday) is clearly a preliminary opinion based on the information known as of (Friday's) briefing," the statement reads. "As was clear from the chief's answers, the investigation is still in the preliminary phase and final findings will be based upon the entire analysis of the evidence, and a thorough review of the statements and final investigation."
Police had arrived to get Boyd out of the foothills after getting a 911 call from a resident who said Boyd had been sleeping there illegally and he was concerned.
Boyd has a criminal history in Albuquerque that goes back as far as 2001, including several arrests on charges of violence against police officers. In one instance in 2010, police said, Boyd struck a female officer and broke her nose.
'Mental Illness'
City Councilor Don Harris and other prominent Albuquerque residents weighed in on the video Saturday.
Harris, who represents the district where the shooting happened, said the video made him concerned about APD officer training, especially when it comes to officers dealing with those with mental illnesses. APD dispatchers told officers responding to the foothills Sunday that Boyd possibly had paranoid schizophrenia and that two criminal cases have been dropped against him in recent years because of his mental incompetency, according to online court records.
"It seemed awful sad to me," Harris said of his reaction to the video. "It seems like we need to have better training for people with mental illness. It just seemed unnecessary." Other city councilors did not respond to requests for comment by Friday afternoon, except for Councilor Trudy Jones who said she hadn't seen the video.
Albuquerque police union president Stephanie Lopez urged caution in drawing conclusions too soon, saying that the video doesn't show the whole story and allows viewers to slow down and deliberate on a fast-moving, dynamic situation.
"Remember that it's easy to look at lapel video footage and not see everything else that was occurring around it at the same time," Lopez said. "You're only getting a small window vision of where that angle of the camera was pointed at that time."
Albuquerque Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry also urged caution in deciding about the shooting this early, saying that the shooting was an "incredibly dynamic situation." He also said it wasn't the role of the Mayor's Office to make any judgment about whether a shooting is justified.
Mayor Richard Berry was out of town and unavailable for comment, a spokeswoman said.
"This case was an incredibly dynamic situation that involved a standoff for four hours with an individual that had a history of mental instability, threats of violence against police officers ... and numerous attempts to end the situation peacefully," Perry said. "... At the end of the day, a determination about the justification of use of force by law enforcement, officersafety considerations and legal determinations are made by those people who are responsible to make them."
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Westbrook Won't Play With US Team This Summer
USA Basketball says Oklahoma City guard Russell Westbrook will not participate this summer so he can rest some previous knee injuries.
Chairman Jerry Colangelo says Tuesday that USA Basketball had been communicating with Westbrook since the end of the season and knew his withdrawal was a possibility.
Westbrook was a member of the Americans' gold medal-winning teams at the 2010 World Championship and 2012 Olympics. He has had multiple knee operations since, though was able to help the Thunder reach the Western Conference finals.
Colangelo says in a statement that the U.S. would love to have Westbrook but that "this is the right decision."
The Americans will begin training camp on July 28 in Las Vegas, a month before the World Cup of Basketball opens in Spain.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
Chestnut Hill was magically transformed into the world of Dr. Seuss on Saturday, the first day of fall, with a message from the Lorax about, what else? – trees. Truffula trees, that is.
The "Trail of the Lorax" began at the Carol Schwartz Gallery, 101 Bethlehem Pike, where visitors could meet Buku the Prehensile-tailed skink from the Solomon Islands, or –for the less daring – Penny the Lion-faced rabbit. Participants could learn about how skinks rely entirely upon trees for food and shelter (just like the brown Bar-ba-loot from "The Lorax," who relied on the Truffula Tree for food).
At O'Doodles Toys, children could meet the Cat in the Hat and get free Truffula tree seeds. Later, they could even stop and smell a Truffula flower at Robertson's Flowers.
There was something for everyone, from face painting and tattoos to Truffula drinks and cupcake and cookie decorating. And let's not forget about Green Eggs and Ham at Roller's Expresso. At 2 p.m. the Lorax made a special appearance to plant a tree at the Chestnut Hill Hotel, an event that was part of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's "Plant One Million."
Other activities on the trail included a screening of "The Lorax," a chance to win a free giraffe feeding at the Philadelphia Zoo and a shoe and clothing freecycle for "Things others need … not thneeds."
The Lorax message to the children was simple: People need to stop caring about "thneeds" and start caring about trees. Remember: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
There are gajillions of stories
of mischief and fun,
but to keep things simple,
let's start with just one …
"The Cat in the Hat"


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A brief bibliography
A brief bibliography
1.Miranda, Eduardo , " Composing Music with Computers", (Focal Press, 2001).
2. Xenakis, Iannis, " Musiques Formelles",(la revue musical,paris 1963). This book has been translated and published in English.
3.Haba, Alois, " New Treatise of Harmony", (Letpzig,Kistner, 1927). This book was written in German and also published in Spanish. It contains scales of 12,19,24,30 and 36 equal tempered tones. He spells out all the chords in each scale but does not tell how to use them.
4. Roads Curtis, " Microsound", (MIT Press, 2001).
5. Chowning, John, " The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Frequency Modulation ", in the "Journal of the Audio Engineering Society", 21(7),1971.
6. Roads,C. and Strawn J.,editors," Fouundations of Computer Music ", (MIT Press, 1985).
7. Chowning, John and Bristow, David, (1986) "FM Theory & Applicaions- by Musicians for Musicians". Tokyo: Yamaha. IBSN 0-02-864682-7.
8. Blackwood, Easley, " The Structure of Diatonic Tunings", (Princeton University Press,1985). Blackwood builds a strong case for equal temperament but admits the value of well-tempered scales in some cases. Perhaps a computer could re-tune "on thr fly" some of his examples he rejects in just-intonation.
9. Barnsley, Michael, " Fractals Everywhere",(Academic Press,Inc., 1988).
10. Perle, George, " Twelve-Tone Tonality", 2nd edition. (University of California Press,1996.
11. Russcol, Herbert, " The Liberation of Sound", (Da Capo Press, 1994). IBSN-0-306-76263-3.
For a lengthy bibliography of articles written about the theory of microtonal scales try this web address:
12. Loy, Gareth, "Musimathics", The mathematical foundation of music- volume 1.
13. Loy, Gareth, "Musimathics", The mathematical foundation of music- volume 2.
Volumes 1&2 of "Musimatics" are an encyclopedic exposition of the mathematical foundations of music engineering for the non-specialist. Volume 1 is 608 pages long ; volume 2 is 576 pages.
14. Benson, David J., "A Mathematical Offering'
This 452 page text book is meant for teachers and students. The interplay between math and music is developed. The book seems to be intended for undergraduate students with a solid math background and who have an interest in music rather than vice-versa.
15. Dodge,Charles, "Computer Music" Schimer Books
16. "Chaos and Fractals", 2nd edition, 2004, Peitgen,Jurgens, and Saupe, Springer-Verlag, New york,Inc. This above book has something for ever one from layman,student,teacher to other professionals
17. "Tuning" 1915 , Owen H. Jorgensen, Michigan State University Press - the perfection of 18th century tuning, the lost art of 19 th century temperament, the science of equal temperament and instructions for aural and electronic tuning.
18. "Just Intonation"1949, Dr. A. D. Fokker, the Hague, Martinus Nijhoff.
19. Here is a web site with practical information on acoustics :


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A couple of weeks ago, a group of us genealogical bloggers accepted an Independence Day assignment to write about an independent, free-spirited character in our family. I immediately thought that most of my ancestors met that criteria or I would not be sitting here today in Monroe, North Carolina. They had the adventuresome spirit to leave home and neighbors, travel over long distances with all their belongings; cruise across the Atlantic Ocean; and emigrate to a new country. I don't take the gumption of my ancestors for granted. But for this assignment, I needed to focus on one individual. So, my second thought drifted to the life and adventures of James Irvin Russell (1908-1991).
From his obituaries (see References at end), I learned
"… He was a theatrical and commercial artist. His portraits of notable persons include those of George Washington Carver and Booker T Washington commissioned by the Florida State Tuberculosis Board …"
"… But, Mr Russell was probably more well known for his excursions into the jungles of South America by way of the Amazon River. He made eight trips, mostly alone, down the Amazon starting when he was 63, hitchhiking in dugouts, canoes, barges and other semi-primitive ways of river travel. He made his last trip down the Amazon in 1979, when he was 72 years old. …"
In the mid 1990s, I visited James Irvin Russell's nephew in Johnstown, PA, who was named after his much admired uncle. However, his middle name was Edwin- James Edwin Russell. The nephew had gone to Jacksonville, FL, during his summer vacations from school and worked beside his uncle as he constructed several artistic homes in a community called Coquina Gates. From this nephew, I obtained two manuscripts written by James I. Russell, one was a 22 page typewritten autobiography; and the other, an 18 page journal of his trips town the Amazon River, the longest river in the world. Later at home, I transcribed the biographical information for my genealogy. I don't think the manuscripts were ever published; I believe James Russell died before he could finish the projects.
However, there were a number of newspapers and magazines which did indeed feature articles of James' adventures. The Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville, Monday, 19 July 1971, published a lead article, "River Rover Won't Give Up" and subtitled, "Amazon's Source Led Boatman On". The article was written by James' friend, Ron Sercombe, who he had known for 20 years. Then again eight years later, on Sunday, 17 Dec 1978, the newspaper came out with, "Down the Amazon River- At age 70, adventurer makes 10-year-old dream come true", by Cynthia Parks (Times-Union staff writer). Finally, The Gulf Travel Club's "Odyssey" Magazine, May/June 1978, printed, "RIVER MAN JIM RUSSELL: His Sixties Haven't Slowed Him Down" by Peggy Payne.
All these articles came out AFTER James Russell built seven houses including a chapel in a community called Coquina Gates in Jacksonville, FL. The homes were built in an artistic style with flagstone floors, round shaped windows, exposed wooden rafters and beams, and the liberal use of Coquina Rock in walls, fireplaces, and garden walls. And yes these talents of James Russell were also featured in a Sunday Magazine Supplement on 29 Mar 1964, entitled, "Talent for designing vaudeville sets now used in creating houses".
It is no wonder that James I. Russell, ran out of time before he could complete his autobiography which he planned to title, "My Wild Sixties".
Image: In 2001, I visited the Jacksonville home of the late James I. Russell. On the walls of the den were maps of James' South American journeys down the Amazon River, as well as his "practice" cruises down just about every river and swamp in northern Florida. Mrs. Anna (Mathews) Russell modeled one of the native baskets that James picked up in South America. A wild cat skin hangs on the wall behind Anna and is mentioned in James' journal. The balsa craft that James floated down the last leg of the Amazon River was named after his patient wife, "The Anna Nery". It was built by his Peruvian guides, who were the same father-son duo who guided an earlier National Geographic exposition.
Mrs. Anna (Mathews) Russell, shows me a house that her husband, James, designed and built in the Coquina Gates community of Jacksonville, FL. Coquina rock is quarried from layers of the lime shells of the sea animal, Coquina. The unique building material was also used in the construction of the Spanish fort in St. Augustine, FL.
I recently re-read all the newsprints on James and also his unpublished autobiography which he started out with the subtitle, "The Little Movie House". James was born in Barnesboro, Cambria Co, PA, which is the same county where Johnstown is located. That may ring a bell as the site of one of the most disastrous floods in our nation's history. Over 2,000 persons were drowned in the rushing waters that broke from a dam on the Conamaugh River in 1889. James claimed the disaster was one of the reasons he had river water in his blood.
James theatrical art days began when he joined his brother and sister and they played music in the stage pit as silent movies were shown on the screen of their father's RUSSSELL THEATER in Barnesboro. Later, James quit high school so he could become a licensed projectionist. He loved the movies.
James had a natural talent for art and painting. Unfortunately, his father's theater closed down after the Crash of 1929. James went on the road as an advance man and publicist for "Punjab, the Very Essence of Hindu Mystic Powers" a traveling vaudeville show. James wrote:
"I traveled up and down the east coast and much of the mid-west designing and painting colorful displays that covered the entire front of the theatre from sidewalk level to above the marquee. … After two years with Punjab, and tired of traveling from one city to another, setting up in cold and drafty backstage rooms and temporary work shops, I wanted to stop moving and stay in one place. When Punjab's show opened in Pittsburgh, our next booking was scheduled for Charles Fienler's VIRGINIA THEATER in Wheeling, West Virginia. I settled down in Wheeling for the next seven years."
Using search engines on the Internet I was surprised and delighted to find the old theaters and landmarks which confirmed the words of James' autobiography. I found pictures of the VIRGINIA THEATER in Wheeling and other theaters at which James worked as he crisscrossed America during the Great Depression. There was THE HOLLYWOOD THEATER on Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon (now on the National List of Historical Places), The GRAND TABOR OPERA HOUSE in Denver, Colorado (which is currently being renovated to its historical splendor). And remarkably, I found a picture and story regarding a vintage sailing vessel "THE STAR OF INDIA", formerly called the ENTERBE. The ship was preserved during the 1930s and now houses the San Diego Maritime Museum. While working on art projects for the grand opening of the museum, James shared meals and bunked in the captain's quarters with a 6 ft, 8 inch, Brit who was called "Lofty".I wish I could share the whole manuscript with you in this blog entry but it is too extensive. I plan to post it on my father's genealogical web site next to the 19th century journal of Thomas W. Russell. The journal is the only other piece of autobiographical writing (except this blog) that I have encountered during my research. So I will close with one more excerpt from James' manuscript. The team which is renovating the Grand Tabor might be interested in the story. Wouldn't it be neat if there are some old pictures of James I. Russell's art work still extant in some forgotten, dusty, cob-webbed room of the old building?
The Grand Tabor Opera House, a vintage photo (left) and the House as it looks today in the process of renovation.
"Soon after I started work at the theater, Mr. Tabor engaged Elliot Daingerfield, who was one of England's most prominent scenic artists, to paint the asbestos curtain. An amusing thing happened after the curtain was completed. Workmen were placing a portrait on the top center of the stage proscenium arch, when Mr. Tabor happened to come down the aisle, looked up and said, "Who the hell is that guy?"
"Shakespeare, the bard of Avon", said one of the men on the set crew."
"Who ever heard of him?"
"Take it down and put my picture up there."
"During the time I worked at the Tabor Grand, the original asbestos curtain hung from the high loft on the back stage. Each year on the anniversary of the grand opening night the curtain was lowered for the audience to view."
Oh, what about the picture of Zasu Pitts? Let me squeeze in one more anecdote from Russell's autobio:
"For the next eight months [at the Hollywood Theater in Portland] we worked 10 to 14 hours a day. One night I remember, the manager, a Mr. Gill, a tough Irishman and in a bad mood, charged through the shop while we were working late. I was painting a poster effect in water color of Zasu Pitts. Gill looked it over and said, 'Mr. Russell that would be alright if you can make it look like Zasu'. We had not been compatible from the start. I was tired and water soaked and just stopped trying to please him. A few weeks later he fired me."
James Irvin Russell, obituaries
Photo and history of "The Star of India"
Google Book Search: Wheeling (WV) in Vintage Postcards (scroll to page 117 for the Virginia Theator) (also look in Amazon.com)


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Are you a fan of dogs? Chris has a lovely big guy named Brick. Together with her hubby Tim, Chris is slowly but surely "Cesar Milan" Training Brick to be a good boy. Attention and Exercise! I have great fun chatting with Chris about our own dog dilemmas (Our dog is a Boston Terrier named Simon :) We are so lucky to have great gals on our Simon Design Team! Chris has a personality to match her fun and whimsical cards. Be sure to check out her BLOG for great giveaways and inspiring work. Look at some of her work below:
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NFL Week 8: Worst Season for Quarterbacks Ever
With the Rams calling to unsuccessfully woo Brett Favre out of retirement, it's clear this is already one of the worst seasons for quarterbacks ever. We break down just whose signalcallers are in the worst shape plus upset picks.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... 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STERLING – The Sterling Public Schools Board on Wednesday discussed the school district's employee benefits plan, which has a $1.15 deficit for the last fiscal year ending June 30.
Finance Director Tim Schwingle made a presentation to Sterling School Board members about the benefits plan.
Mike Stopulos, a representative of Davenport, Iowa-based Butler Benefit Service, the district's plan administrator, also discussed the issue with the board, noting that there are benefits to a wellness program.
Employees and the district saw an 8 percent premium increase kick in on Sept. 1. That increase was not enough to cover expenses, and the fund is in danger of running out of money.
Schwingle is considering another increase in premium rates shared by employees and the district, which, if implemented, would likely take effect in January, he said.
The district can increase premium rates without negotiating with employees and without a board vote, but the union and board would be notified, Schwingle said. The union must approve of changes in the co-pays (percentages of the premiums) that the union or district would pay.
The school district has reduced its benefits for teachers, administrators and support staff in the last two contract negotiations, Superintendent Tad Everett has said.
Claims are unpredictable and medical providers have increased charges, Everett said at the meeting. The district will research its options for the insurance plan, he said.
The money in the employee benefits plan comes largely from the education fund, but can come from the operations and maintenance fund on behalf of the custodial staff, Schwingle said. Employees' contributions to the plan are deducted directly from their paychecks, he said.
The district could make short-term, interfund loans to the benefits plan if it runs out of money, Schwingle said. Those loans would come from the education fund or the working cash fund.
"The irony is we're taking money out of one fund that is struggling to put it into another fund that's struggling, so it's not an ideal solution," he said.
Last year was probably the worst year the district has ever had for claims, Schwingle said. The fund ran out of money in 2002. The fund's best year was 2009, Schwingle said.
The plan covers up to $110,000 for an individual. The district also buys supplemental insurance to cover health claims that exceed that amount.
The district has about 400 employees, and 307 of them are buying the insurance, Schwingle said. Employees are not given any money for not participating in the plan, Schwingle said.
In other matters, the district has received a $50,000 school maintenance grant from the state which will reimburse the district for its costs for the geothermal energy project at Lincoln Elementary School, Everett told the school board.
The project was expected in September to cost a total of about $600,000. It has been funded by grants, private donations and Health Life Safety funds.
The board voted to:
– Proclaim Nov. 11-17 American Education Week.
– Approve statements of assurances from the schools to the state as Race to the Top schools that they are committed to scientifically based research and that they will spend at least 10 percent of certain Title 1 funds on professional development.
– Approve the 2012-13 annual applications for Illinois State Board of Education recognition of the district's schools as public schools.


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Can Harry Potter pull off a transformation into a young Allen Ginsberg, future icon of the Beat generation? According to a spare 30-second teaser from the forthcoming movie "Kill Your Darlings," the answer is … quite possibly.
John Krokidas' film, which screened at Sundance and will be shown at the Venice Film Festival's Venice Days, has a distinct literary appeal, like a Muppet Babies version of the Beat Generation, with actors Jack Huston, Dane DeHaan and Ben Foster taking on the roles of real-life Beats such as Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and William Burroughs.
It's a love story about young Carr and Ginsberg's relationship blooming at Columbia University -- a romance that may have figured into the murder of professor David Kammerer. So far, it seems that Daniel Radcliffe has the look and the voice of Ginsberg as he stammers and mentions Walt Whitman's hatred of rhyme and meter in a poetry class.
In a video interview with the L.A. Times from the film's Sundance premiere, DeHaan and Radcliffe discussed the research that went into portraying their real-life characters. Radcliffe had Ginsberg's diaries, and he cited the "innocent arrogance" of Ginsberg as a young artist. But DeHaan and Radcliffe were most effusive about their kissing scene, and how they'd like to "win the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss."
"Kill Your Darlings" opens in limited release on Oct. 18.
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If The Witness has you in the mood for some super tricky puzzles, you may want to remember the likes of these infamously difficult moments in gaming.
If The Witness has you in the mood for some super tricky puzzles, you may want to remember the likes of these infamously difficult moments in gaming.
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Video Game History Month 2014: GameSpot editors celebrate Silent Hill's 15th anniversary by reflecting on their experiences with Konami's survival horror classic from 1999.
Zorine and Jess continue to tackle Silent Hill 3 as they awkwardly gather keys and run from orifice-faced monsters in #HoHLive.
Homer goes to see the cosplay magic at the Konami Cosplay 2011 Comic-Con event.
E3 2011: Konami pushes newest survival horror adventure to this winter and confirms new installment for Sony's portable; HD-updated Silent Hill Collection also en route.
Wolverine's Adelaide Clemens and Game of Thrones' Kit Harington join Konami game-inspired project.
Sequel to 2006 film based on third installment of Konami's horror series in preproduction at Lionsgate, Michael J. Bassett to write, direct.
Meet the composer working on Suda 51 and Shinji Mekami's new project, Shadows of the Damned.
GDC 2010: Akira Yamaoka of Grasshopper Manufacture discusses how the human brain works and what techniques are effective when creating a memorable audio experience.
Source: The British Board of Film Classification's recent rating of a Konami game titled "Silent Hill." What we heard: Last month, rumors percolated that Climax was working on a remake ...
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Nola--I was quite sad to graduate. I left all of my friends in good 'ole WI and moved to Cali...it was really hard. But I had a job all set here and lots of connections through Teach for America, so that made it a lot easier.I guess what has made me happy now is knowing that my mid 20s have ruled just as much as my early 20s. I have had a BLAST!! For those who say, all the good times are in undergrad...well, they're idiots!
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text: That Glasgow is Scotland's clubbing capital is a long-settled argument, given the number of top-class venues and long-running nights with global reputations that call our streets home. So it shouldn't be surprising that alternative nights for those of us with less interest in big-name DJs and carefully-worded drinks promos are just as top class. Get your glad rags on and get dancing at five of the best queer, indie, retro and glamorous nights in Glasgow.Read More


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Justin Silverton has a list on his blog of some of the PHP-based games out there today, including several RPGs and various smaller, lighter games.
The list includes:
Not all of them are smaller, independant sites either - the Heroes of Might and Magic site is related to the widely popular Ubisoft game of the same title. Always great to see PHP being used in major ways!


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The Dallas Cowboys have added another quarterback with starting experience in Caleb Hanie.
The signing of Hanie on Thursday gives the Cowboys three quarterbacks behind Tony Romo. Kyle Orton was Romo's backup last year, and Dallas signed Brandon Weeden last month.
Hanie, who didn't play last year, spent four seasons with Chicago after signing as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He started four games for the Bears, throwing for 679 yards with three touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
The former Dallas-area high school quarterback spent the 2012 season as Denver's third QB. Baltimore released Hanie at the end of training camp last year. He was on Cleveland's roster for a week in December.
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Always A Witch (Witch #2)
Author: Carolyn MacCullough
Pages: 288
Published: August 1, 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: The {Teen} Book Scene Blog Tour
Rating: 4 1/2 Birds
The adventures of Tam and Gabriel continue with more time travel, Talents, spy work, and of course, the evil Knights.
Since the gripping conclusion of Once A Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision—one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era New York in order to destroy her family, Tamsin is forced to follow him into the past. Stranded all alone in the nineteenth century, Tamsin soon finds herself disguised as a lady's maid in the terrifying mansion of the evil Knight family, avoiding the watchful eye of the vicious matron, La Spider, and fending off the advances of Liam Knight. As time runs out, both families square off in a thrilling display of magic. And to her horror, Tamsin finally understands the nature of her fateful choice.
As you may remember, we had the great pleasure of having Carolyn MacCullough on our blog a bit ago. You can check that out HERE. Thanks to The {Teen} Book Scene – we now bring you a review for Always a Witch. Don't forget to check out everyone else that's on this great tour!
My take: Oh. My. Goodness! Now, though I didn't give it AS high of a rating as Once a Witch, Always a Witch was definitely fantastic in it's own right. Following on with the next step in Tamsin's life was like following a harrowing tale that no teenager should ever have to endure.
The way Carolyn plays out the growing relationship between Tamsin and Gabriel is cute, but not overly so. And the better part of it, is that the relationship grows even in the alternate era they've traveled back to.
Tamsin is such a strong-minded character, and at times I'll admit I wished I could reach into the book and smack her for not just listening to people. I think though, that her strong-mindedness gave her more depth. She followed intuition, even if it looked like it was going to get her in trouble. And then with Gabriel just popping in, it gave more to her just going after things.
I liked the addition of different family members from the Knights. Each one held onto different parts of my mind and made me keep thinking back to them at different moments throughout the story.
Everything about this book was captivating to me. Even the little things that some people might not notice. The actions people took, the way things were sometimes worded, it all just fell into place and ended the story on a good note. It's definitely worth your time to read it!
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The new COMP-One Water/Methanol-Injection System Plus Performance Tuner from Snow Performance is available for a variety of domestic Ford, GM and Dodge applications. It is formulated to help get the most power from supercharged or turbocharged gasoline engines, without custom tuning or high-octane fuel.
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For 50 years The Beatles have been one of the most popular, honored and influential pop groups in history. Their music is so good, so timeless, that even now, long after they split, long after John Lennon was murdered and George Harrison died, they are still among the best-selling groups in the world.
Their history and their music have been the basis of several popular stage productions one of which, "4 Lads from Liverpool," is opening the Act II Playhouse in Ambler's 2012-2013 season, where it'll run through Sept. 30.
The lads are Douglas Cox (Ringo), Robert Graham (John), Paul Ramone (Paul) and Jimmy Pou (George). The songs include "My Girl," "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "Eight Days of the Week," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "In My Life" and "Hey Jude."
The show has two 40-minute sets. Much of the time the audience is encouraged to clap, sing, shout and even stand up and dance. It's an audience-friendly evening to be sure. The music is also top-notch.
The performances are, so far as I can tell, quite good. I say "so far as I can tell" because, like so many musicals these days, this one is terribly over-amplified.
Act II's theater is intimate, probably about the size of the Liverpool clubs in which the Beatles got their start. While amplification is necessary for the guitars and basses and so forth, it doesn't need to be as loud as it is here. What that does is flatten some of the subtleties in the music and make it hard to discern who is playing what.
That's too bad because the appealing cast has a fine approach to the great songs they perform. If only it didn't hurt to listen to them, the evening would be even more appealing than it already is.
For tickets to "4 Lads from Liverpool," playing through Sept. 30 at Act II Playhouse in Ambler, call 215-654-0200 or visit www.act2.org


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When a metallic nanojunction between two macroscopic electrodes is connected to a battery, electrical current flows across it. The battery provides, and maintains, the charge imbalance between the electrode surfaces needed to sustain steady-state conduction in the junction. This static non-equilibrium problem is usually described according to the Landauer picture. In this picture, the junction is connected to a pair of defect-free metallic leads, each of which is connected to its own distant infinite heat-particle reservoir. The pair of reservoirs represents the battery. Each reservoir injects electrons into its respective lead with the electrochemical potential appropriate to the bulk of that reservoir. Each injected electron then travels undisturbed down the respective lead to the junction, where it is scattered and is transmitted, with a finite probability, into the other lead. From there it flows, without further disturbance, into the other reservoir. The reservoirs are conceptual constructs which allow us to map the transport problem onto a truly stationary scattering one, in which the time derivative of the total current, and of all other local physical properties of the system, is zero. By doing so, however, we arbitrarily enforce a specific steady state whose microscopic nature is not, in reality, known a priori. The Landauer construct is highly plausible in the case of non-interacting lectrons.
In the material provided below, we first discuss the concepts of diffusive vs. ballistic transport, then we show the derivation of the Landauer and Landauer-Buttiker formulas, we give a link to a resonant tunneling diode solver and we also provide homework assignments regarding simulation of resonant tunneling diodes.
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The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was an organization of Union Civil War veterans. The founders created the organization with the firm belief that the experiences of Civil War veterans was unique and hallowed. As a result, it was intended that the Grand Army would eventually die with the veterans of the war. This record of the South Deerfield G.A.R. shows that of the ten founders, only one was still alive in 1892, and of the total membership of 87 veterans only 24 remained alive. This sketch also describes one of the unsung aspects of the Civil War experience: the veterans' wives formed a "Woman's Relief Corps."
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New London — He's years removed from his addiction to heroin, but for John DeRosa of Waterford the painful memories of his struggles to get clean are not easy to shake.
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"Once I got a taste for morphine, that was it," he said.
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He did go back, again and again. Once the addiction takes hold there is nothing that will stand in the way of the next fix, he said.
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He started buying heroin from runners on the street. He later cut out the middle man and started buying directly from the dealers, even getting heroin to sell to others to support his own habit.
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Once he got his fix, he said, it only took about 30 seconds for the "flu" to subside.
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He was getting high mostly by himself at that point and recalls installing pools - essentially working for heroin.
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By the end of 2005 he kept telling himself he had to "get right."
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He ended up at Stonington Institute,where he spent 28 days clean before leaving and getting high again. He finally went to Lebanon Pines, to the 90-day program that he compared to "getting deprogrammed from a cult." A year and a half at a halfway house in Norwich followed, and then two years at Oxford House in New London. The craving subsided. He went to countless meetings and was mentored by those who had been clean longer.
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New London City Council discusses lease for city office consolidation
It would be dramatically cheaper for the city to relocate its offices to a Howard Street office complex than moving them to Eugene O'Neill Drive, according to competing bids presented to the city
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Mayor Michael Passero kicked off his mayoral campaign on Monday with a fundraiser at Tony D's restaurant and a visit from local and state Democratic officials.


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PITTSBURGH � Oft-injured pitcher Jaret Wright and the Pittsburgh Pirates agreed on a minor league contract Wednesday with an invitation to spring training.
Wright, a 15-game winner for Atlanta in 2004, had a 6.97 ERA while losing all three games he started for Baltimore last season. The right-hander pitched only in rehabilitation games after that because of a sore shoulder, but did not undergo surgery.
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