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Four weeks after her younger sister was killed in a moped accident in Oak Bluffs, Christina Dunnet Davis is vowing to join any campaign that will rid the Vineyard of mopeds.
"Now that we have buried Kate and we're trying to reassess our lives, our family is going to pursue whatever we can to either close the businesses or to enact laws that will have some effect on them," she said this week in a telephone interview with the Gazette.
"Martha's Vineyard will be seeing my family up there again," added Mrs. Davis, who is 32 and lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.
In the same weeks that it has taken the family of Kate Dunnet Miller to muster such a statement, the landscape around mopeds has felt even more tremors.
On Monday, an apparent act of road rage by the driver of a late model Toyota Corolla in Edgartown sent a moped rider crashing on Edgartown-West Tisbury Road near Oyter Pond Road. According to witnesses, police said, a gray Toyota "passed two mopeds and then pulled right back in front of them, and the rider of the moped slammed on the brakes and went flying over the handlebars."
Police, who are seeking the driver of the car, said the accident victim was a young male who sustained some road rash and refused medical treatment. In another accident Monday afternoon, a moped rider in Oak Bluffs coming around the same right bend where Mrs. Miller lost control of her moped narrowly escaped a head-on collision with a Lexus SUV.
"Just before he collided, he jumped off. The moped was destroyed," said police Lieut. David Roberts. The rider received minor injuries and was treated and released at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.
In both accidents Monday, the victims fared far better than some other riders this summer who have ended up on the pavement.
Last week, the victim of an accident in early June who crashed into a guardrail in Oak Bluffs and needed 12 stitches to sew up a gash in her thigh, took the first steps to file a lawsuit against a dealer, claiming that the moped was defective and the training she received inadequate and misleading.
Meanwhile, the family of Barnard Lorence, who was critically injured in a crash in Edgartown just five days after Mrs. Miller died, has continued its bedside vigil for the past 22 days in a Boston hospital where the 60-year-old Florida man is struggling to recover from severe head trauma.
After weeks in critical condition and at times in a coma, he is now listed in fair condition, but Dr. Alan Hirshberg, emergency services director at the Vineyard hospital, said that Mr. Lorence will likely have "a long road to go" in his recovery from such head injuries.
"It's a life-altering event," said Dr. Hirshberg. "It is also for the woman who hit the moped."
For people involved in such accidents, the one sure result is pain - from the physical recovery, from guilt or from grief.
"It's been a huge loss, one we're still struggling with day to day. And especially for her husband, since he witnessed the accident, he's still going through it," said Mrs. Davis. Her 30-year-old sister Kate was the middle child of three siblings.
"We're from a very close family," she said. "We're originally from England and when we moved here, we didn't know anyone. Kate was like the leader of the family."
Now, Mrs. Davis said, she and her family hope to channel their feelings of anger and loss into efforts that would protect future tourists on the Vineyard from the deadly dangers of mopeds.
"They didn't sign any paperwork. They were given keys and shown how to turn [the mopeds] on and off," she said. "It's amazing to me that the moped rental dealers get to reap the economic benefits. We're interested in pursuing something to try and eradicate these businesses. The type of person my sister was, she would definitely have wanted us to do something like that."
As soon as she heard of her sister's accident on July 7, Mrs. Davis and her father flew to the Island. "We didn't know how extensive Kate's injuries were," she said. "We were hoping we would sit by her bedside. Then we got notice she had died."
Mrs. Davis said of her short time on the Island, "I've never met such nice people, and helpful." Then, she added, "I read about doctors signing a petition, but a petition is just a start."
In fact, efforts to reactivate statewide legislation restricting moped rentals are starting to build momentum. Tisbury attorney Dan Larkosh, who is representing the June moped victim in the lawsuit against an Oak Bluffs dealer, told the Gazette that a fundraiser slated for August 28 will help generate money for a lobbyist to advocate a state law requiring moped operators to hold a motorcycle license.
Last spring, West Tisbury police chief Beth Toomey and state Rep. Eric Turkington helped broker a compromise with moped dealers and their opponents. Mr. Turkington agreed to pull back on his proposed legislation in exchange for an agreement from dealers to implement a nine-point plan aimed at reducing moped accidents.
After last month's fatality, Chief Toomey brought both groups back to the table and told dealers they would be subject to unannounced spot checks to see if they are following the plan, especially whether they are requiring renters to sign an inherent risk form which spells out the dangers of riding a moped on Island roads.
"A good number of dealers have tried in good faith and with due diligence to implement the nine points," said Mr. Turkington's aide, Russell Smith. "The question is, does it make any difference given the carrying capacity of roads on the Vineyard?"
Representative Turkington told the Gazette yesterday that the important step is to find out whether dealers are complying with the nine-point plan. "If it's not being done, that's a huge issue, and I would suggest that voluntary measures are inadequate," he said.


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AUSTIN (AP) – Locator chips embedded in student IDs by a Texas school district has set off a debate over privacy and religion after one student refused to participate.
San Antonio's Northside Independent School District put the chips in the ID badges of 4,200 high school and middle school students.
School officials say they could receive up to $1.7 million in additional state funding if the technology enables more accurate attendance counts.
But the parents of a 15-year-old sophomore say the potential of more school funding doesn't outweigh privacy and religious rights.
A judge in San Antonio had been expected to decide Wednesday whether the student could transfer. But the family's attorney says the hearing was cancelled after the school district asked that the case be moved to federal court.
A new hearing hasn't been set.
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For some people, the biggest event in Sheffield's social calendar starts this week, when the World Snooker Championship begins another year at the Crucible Theatre. For the rest of us though, there's Tramlines. The first bands for this year's festival have been announced and the list, as ever, includes tons of DiS-friendly acts such as Field Music, 65daysofstatic, Alt-J, Beth Jeans Houghton, Clock Opera, Esben And The Witch, Frankie Rose, Future Of The Left, Mazes, Peace, Rolo Tomassi and Toy, with shitloads more to come.
To keep you busy in the meantime, the Sensoria music and film festival has announced one hell of a bill which features Laurie Anderson, Bill Drummond, a live headphones gig in Debenhams and plenty of excellent concerts and screenings for you to attend.
And just in case you hadn't heard, DiS is doing another roller disco at Skate Central on Saturday May 5th. It's called Rolled School, it features Errors, Polinski, Ghosting Season, Novella and The Proper Ornaments, and if you went to the last ones you already know it will be factually the most fun night in the history of the world ever. To find out more, click here.
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As my esteemed predecessor pointed out around this time last year, The Crookes are probably the biggest success story Sheffield has had in some time. Okay, so their debut album Chasing After Ghosts didn't land them on the cover of the NME or anything, but they still have European tours, radio airplay and high-profile endorsements from Richard Hawley and Steve Lamacq to show for their hard work. Their second album, due for release in early summer, could help them climb the next rung of the music industry's ladder, and stompy new single 'Afterglow' is the sharp, scuzzy start of a whole new chapter (and sound) for the band. Remarkably, The Crookes are playing for free at The Harley on Tuesday May 1st.
Best Friends are even catchier, and their cheerfully named new EP Throwing Up is an example of exactly how lo-fi guitar pop should sound. 'Wasting Time' is just about the most infectious song we've heard this year – seriously, its hook gets stuck in my head on a daily basis – and its shouty sing-along chorus is a worthy soundtrack to anyone's summer.
Despite the silly name, Death Rays Of Ardilla are a far less frivolous proposition, defined by their bellowing Nick Cave-style vocals and grungy bloodthirsty riffs. Although they've got no formal releases on the way, they will be performing a live soundtrack to cult Japanese horror flick Onibaba as part of this year's Sensoria festival at Trafalgar House (below S1, next to Coporation) on Thursday April 26th. For more information click here
After that you can keep an eye out for Let The Man Speak, the debut album of angry post-punk from the awesome Wooderson. Dates have yet to be confirmed, but the sour first track from it, 'Mint Condition', went online a couple of weeks back and should whet your appetite.
Pop concerts
So we've already told you about Rolled School, but DiS always has more gigs on the horizon, and on Thursday May 31st we've got super-smart electronic duo Walls on at The Harley – not one to be missed. And don't forget to come and see the stunning Perfume Genius at the Lantern Theatre on Monday May 7th – but only if you've already got tickets I'm afraid, as this one's a sell-out. For all future gigs, visit us on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook.
Also in May, on the 12th, the party-starters at Death By Shoes are putting on an Our Band Could Be Your Life-themed gig, with an excellent selection of Sheffield bands paying tribute to some of the most significant acts of the 1980s American underground. So there'll be Bhurgeist playing as Dinosaur Jr, Avida Dollars playing as Black Flag and, well, the list goes on. It takes place at Queens Social Club and you can find out more by clicking here.
As for club nights, there's a couple of great new ones at Dada, the Thornbridge Brewery bar in Trippet Lane. The eclectic madness of (A) Touch Sensitive returns for second round on Friday April 27th, and the following night the folks from Pull Yourself Together launch a brand new indiepop/C86 disco - a mighty successor to the much-missed Offbeat in the making for sure.
April 18th – The Purgatory Players / Oxo Foxo / The Coma Girls / Stewart Faulkner – The Washington
April 20th – Graham Coxon – Leadmill
April 21st – Wooderson / Algiers / Devil's Kut – The Washington (Sensoria)
April 24th – Bastille – The Harley
April 26th – Cate Le Bon – The Harley
April 26th – Death Rays Of Ardilla live rescore to Onibaba - Trafalgar House (Sensoria)
April 27th – Niki And The Dove / Strangers / Anneka – Bungalows And Bears
April 27th – Sunless '97 / G R E A T W A V E S – The Bowery
May 1st – The Crookes / Hey Sholay – The Harley
May 5th – Rolled School feat. Errors / Polinski / Ghosting Season / Novella / The Proper Ornaments – Skate Central
May 12th - Our Band Could Be Your Life feat. Avida Dollars / Bhurgeist / The Coma Girls / Downdime / Instrument / Liars Beware / Slowcoaches – Queens Social Club
May 16th – The Horrors – Leadmill
May 22nd – Shabazz Palaces – The Harley
May 22nd – St Etienne – Leadmill
May 26th – Alt-J – The Harley
May 28th – Deaf Club – Soyo
May 29th – Islet – The Harley
May 31st – Walls – The Harley
June 5th – Lucy Rose – The Harley
June 6th - 100% Silk label showcase feat. Ital / Maria Minerva / Magic Touch / LA Vampires - Fez Club
June 10th – Hot Chip – Leadmill
June 15th - Jack Lesser Lewis' Awkward Energy / The Middle Ones - The Redhouse
Stars of the future
Andew Hirst used to play drums in experimental folk-rock combo The Purgatory Players. Now he's in Fall Forwards, who seem to be carving out their own niche of breathy indie, neatly punctuated by the lightest of math touches. So far they only have three tracks up on Bandcamp, but needless to say we're eager to hear more.
Luke Twyman, meanwhile, is one of the many brains behind talented DIY collective The Audacious Art Experiment. Trans/Human is a collaboration between him and Adam Denton and their EP from last year, The 8 Hour Dance is an engrossing improvised blur of slurred distortion and ominous drums that's well worth half an hour of your time. You can hear it on Bandcamp.
Nai Harvest aren't perhaps as highbrow – in fact they're so unashamedly emo they should probably be considered a guilty pleasure. But you know what, we like their heartbroken melodies, hoarse hollering and dramatic stop-starts, so quit being a snob and visit their Bandcamp too.
If that's too wimpy, give the brutal hardcore of Grazes a try, because the stuff they've got on Bandcamp reminds us of an even more muscular version of Iceage, which is no bad thing at all. The band (who share a member with the aforementioned Nai Harvest, fact fans) recently posted a link on their Facebook page to an even more aggressive Sheffield act called Rough Justice. Honestly, we know absolutely nothing about Rough Justice, but we don't think your gran would like them…
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'Defamatory' Facebook posts lead to suspension of former Connecticut NAACP president
The NAACP has halted a planned election of officers to its Greater Waterbury branch and has suspended the membership of a 20-year member and former state president for posting "defamatory allegations" on Facebook.
Jimmie Griffin, a former state and local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, received a letter recently, signed by President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, informing him that his membership had been suspended.
Griffin, Jealous said, had violated the organization's by-laws by "making defamatory and false allegations on Facebook postings," "forwarding emails to press organizations" and "misrepresenting the position of the national office."
According to Griffin, the Greater Waterbury branch of the NAACP had itself violated the organization's by-laws, in order to manipulate the results of a highly contested Nov. 15 election of officers, favoring one candidate over another -- an election process that has now also been suspended by the national office of the NAACP.
"We found some issues and so we intervened," the Rev. Gill Ford, national director of unit administration for the NAACP, said, confirming the election's suspension but refusing to go into further detail on the nature of those issues.
Griffin said he will be contacting the Connecticut Attorney General's office and the the IRS nonprofit monitoring division, with the intention of filing formal complaints over his suspension.
"I think the organization is in dire straits," Griffin said. "Leadership is flawed -- not in touch with the reality."
Victor Diaz, current president of the NAACP's Greater Waterbury branch -- and the first-ever Dominican-American NAACP branch president -- said he was one of Griffin's targets, but not the only one.
"He attacked a lot of people," Diaz said. "He would call them at work, call them at home. A lot of people resigned because of Jimmie."
Pamela Hughes of New Haven, pastor and founder of the Faith Generation Ministries Church in Waterbury, one of three candidates running for the position of branch president, said Griffin had attempted to work internally to get the local branch to adhere to its own by-laws.
Griffin and Hughes said the Greater Waterbury branch had not properly notified members of the date of the election and improperly processed new members resulting in a decline of membership and a violation of the organization's governing rules.
Griffin, in an October email to Ford, said, "Many complain about internal infighting exposed in public on Facebook and sometimes in the local media but much of this [is] caused by the feeling, that no one is concerned about the hostile and negligent environment existing within the walls of this branch. Many are complaining but you cannot find enough members to even file a formal complaint against certain branch leaders. It seems that the local political parties are running the NAACP while our people suffer from enormous problems that range from hopelessness to outright apathy."
"He was trying to get them to follow their own bylaws, their own procedures," Hughes said. "He was kind of being ignored. That's when he began to take to emails and Facebook."
It was that airing of what some considered private organization business that resulted in Griffin's suspension.
"The NAACP is a private organization," Scot X. Esdaile, state president, said. "This is an internal issue."
Diaz, who is also deputy commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles, had planned to abstain from running again, giving others a chance to run in his stead, but said Monday that he has since reconsidered. He called Griffin "one of my biggest supporters, at one time."
"He would say something positive one day, something negative the next," Diaz said of Griffin's Facebook posts. "Not just about me, but about the organization as a whole."
Griffin said the goal was to get Betty Johnson elected in place of Diaz.
"I wasn't aware of that," Johnson said with a laugh. "The Waterbury branch is better off by not having members who violate their bylaws. If that means Jimmie Griffin falls into that category, so be it."
"I have no interest in playing his game," she said. "Jimmie is in his situation because of Jimmie."


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Gilbert defeats Thomaston 76-54
THOMASTON >> Thomaston's boys basketball team showed they could play Gilbert's up-tempo style in a frantic-paced first quarter at Thomaston High School Tuesday evening. Then both teams needed pace adjustments as the Yellowjackets (8-3) pulled away to a 76-54 win.
The Golden Bears (5-7) flared to a 16-8 lead with two minutes to go in the first period behind two huge drives surrounding a 3-pointer from senior guard Drew Gagne (team-high 21 points). Alex Gagne (14 points) scrapped right alongside him on a fast break, his own put-back and a drive.
Gilbert, led by Luis Cordova (11 points), Yoharky Sarmiento (24 points) and Robert Skinner (game-high 26 points) kept pace, but layups and outside shots often went wide in the hectic pace they established.
The Bears held to an 18-14 lead at the end of the quarter.
Thomaston senior Jack Kelley drilled a 3-pointer seconds into period two, 21-14.
An upset bubbled in the scoreboard.
Then two things changed.
The Yellowjackets began the game in an uncharacteristic 2-3 zone. In the second quarter, they came back to a tight man-to-man defense.
Gilbert's man coverage and an overwhelming job on the boards froze the Bears. The Yellowjackets reined in the pace of their own play.
"When they switched from zone to man, we stopped moving," said Thomaston coach Gary Franklin.
"We're still working on a lot of things," said Gilbert coach Mark Douglass. "We need to slow it down sometimes."
"Sometimes we go too fast for ourselves," grinned Gilbert's Skinner, who can handle the pace better than most.
With the second-quarter changes, Thomaston shooting faded dramatically while Gilbert rebounders boxed out, crashed the boards and made life miserable for Thomaston in the middle.
Senior Yellowjacket center Mark Collins led the effort with 12 rebounds and 6 blocks. Sarmiento was in there with another 9 rebounds and a block. Cordova added another five rebounds.
"We shot 27 percent tonight," said Thomaston's Franklin. "And we were one shot and done. With their rebounding, they're getting 15-20 more shots on offense."
When Gilbert's play slowed down to a manageable pace, they took better shots.
Sarmiento and Cordova followed Kelley's opening second-quarter shot with a layup and a five-foot runner.
Alex Gagne held Thomaston's lead 23-18 with an outside shot.
Then, in the final six minutes of the half, the Yellowjackets taught school in a 20-1 display classroom.
Collins (6 points) started it with an outside shot. Skinner (6 assists) made one of his five steals for the night, knocking down an outside shot with it. Cordova blocked a Thomaston shot, feeding Sarmiento for a fast break.
Skinner had a steal and layup. Sarmiento went outside for one shot, then underneath on a nice feed for another. Skinner hit his only three of the night. Sarmiento finished a fast break. Skinner drove the baseline.
The Yellowjackets led 38-24.
"We always have one bad quarter," said Coach Franklin. "We need to play consistently for 32 minutes."
Foul shooting also contributed to Thomaston's woes.
Playing in-your-face defense for three quarters cost Gilbert fouls. The Bears threw many of them away.
"You can't beat a team 11-for-23 from the line," Franklin said.
Gilbert cranked its lead to 55-35 near the end of the third quarter. The Bears brought it back to 14 in the final period when Drew Gagne got a second wind.
Pacing was still the answer for both teams.
"We need to find the pace in a game that's best for us -- up-tempo sometimes, half-court sets at others," said Gilbert Coach Douglas. "This team still has a lot of potential to fill."
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Joint anti-terror exercise opens in Indonesia
A multinational anti-terrorism exercise officially kicked off Monday in Indonesia, with 872 elite soldiers taking part from 18 countries.
Indonesia's Military Chief Gen. Moeldoko and U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN, David Carden, opened the five-day Counter Terrorism Exercise that runs until Friday on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta.
Moeldoko said in a speech that the threat of terrorism has increased in line with science and technology developments.
"The current dynamic of security development in the world needs serious attention from all security elements, especially the military," said Moeldoko, who was appointed as Indonesia's armed forces commander in August.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings in Bali by militants linked to Jemaah Islamiyah, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
However, recent terror attacks in the country have been carried out by individuals or small groups and have targeted security forces and locals, with less deadly results.
Carden expressed the hope that the participants would share best practices and information to better cooperate in confronting the problem in the region.
He said the cooperation can also work for disaster preparedness.
The countries in the drill are the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), along with the United States, Russia, China, Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.


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Of Compasses and Covenants
The Book of Mormon teaches that sacred covenants point the way back to our Father in Heaven's presence.
It was night. The swamp was pitch-black. Inky water, cold in the early spring, crept above our waists to our chests, bringing an incessant shiver. Mangrove trees scratched our faces and hands and pulled at our clothing, and submerged logs seemed to throw themselves in our path. An occasional slough opened under our feet, and suddenly we would be over our heads in the fetid water. Sodden clothing and equipment and heavy weapons seemed to weigh a ton, pulling us down into the murky bog.
From somewhere deep in the swamp an alligator bellowed. Deadly water moccasins silently slithered off nearby tree stumps into the water. The blackness of the night and the heaviness of the pungent, stagnant air was like a suffocating blanket. But our patrol of United States Army Rangers moved steadily and surely toward our destination, our course clearly pointed by a diminutive device worth at most a few dollars in the marketplace but of immeasurable value to soldiers swallowed up in an alien wilderness—a lensatic compass.
The year was 1965. The place was the swamplands of Eglin Air Force Base in the western panhandle of Florida, the site of the last phase of commando training at the U.S. Army Ranger School. Virtually all in our class were destined for service in Vietnam. Less than a year later I would find myself leading a platoon of infantry in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia. My experience in Vietnam would attest that of all the skills taught in Ranger School none was more important than the ability to read—and the confidence to follow—that simple little gadget, the compass. Even on the darkest night its luminous dial reliably pointed the route. No matter how hedged up the way, no matter how dangerous and foreboding the surroundings, the compass faithfully led to safety the soldier wise enough to follow its bearings.
Lehi and his family knew something of the perils of the wilderness. Indeed, for Lehi, life was a wilderness. He and his family also knew something of the lifesaving qualities of a reliable compass. The Liahona provided their direction through the desert. Its directing capability came not from a magnetic field but rather "according to the faith and diligence and heed" which Lehi and his family gave to the directions that appeared on this compass.1
Lehi also saw life as a spiritual wilderness, a circumstance that created "opposition in all things."2 The imagery of life as a wilderness requiring a reliable compass, or guidance system, is captured powerfully in Lehi's great dream of the tree of life, profound in its teachings about the mortal experience. Significantly, his account of the dream begins with this metaphor:
"Methought I saw in my dream, a dark and dreary wilderness.
"And it came to pass that I saw a man, and he was dressed in a white robe; and he came and stood before me.
"And it came to pass that he spake unto me, and bade me follow him. And it came to pass that as I followed him I beheld myself that I was in a dark and dreary waste.
"And after I had traveled for the space of many hours in darkness, I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies."3
Seeing mortality as a wilderness fraught with darkness, dreariness, and moral hazards is essential to understanding Lehi's dream. (Lehi's own life experience made this imagery both natural and appropriate.) The central message of this dream is that there is "a tree, whose fruit [is] desirable to make one happy"4—"the love of God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men; wherefore, it is the most desirable above all things."5 This love has as its ultimate expression "the condescension of God" through the advent of Jesus Christ in the flesh to minister among men and then to be "lifted up upon the cross and slain for the sins of the world."6
The challenge of mortality is to find and remain close to this tree, with its divine fruit, in the midst of a vast moral and spiritual wilderness. Some means of direction is needed. In his dream, Lehi followed the man in the white robe, his compass bearer on a journey that lasted "many hours" through a "dark and dreary waste." Eventually, Lehi's followership led him to his celestial destination. The dream then teaches that he who would follow in Lehi's path, which is "strait and narrow," will find a "rod of iron" beside the path—"the word of God"—to which the wayfarer must hold fast in order to find the tree and partake of the fruit.7 The path and the rod of iron, though passing perilously by the precipice of spiritual death, nonetheless will safely guide the seeking traveler through mortality's wasteland.
In a broad sense, "the word of God" means the teachings and commandments.8 At a more specific level, it is the sacred covenants between God and man. Covenants bespeak commitment to living the commandments—God's law. It is living the law—not simply knowing it—that ultimately leads to happiness in this life and exaltation in eternity. In return for our faithfulness to our covenants, the Lord promises us the companionship of his Spirit. Living worthy to receive this blessing, and receiving it, is what it means to partake of the fruit of the tree. Accordingly, the imagery of holding fast to the rod of iron means to make and keep sacred covenants.
Covenants are like a compass. The Book of Mormon provides an unparalleled perspective on covenants as the Lord's compass through the welter of pitfalls that characterize this mortal wilderness. Indeed, one of the principal purposes of the Book of Mormon is to restore knowledge and understanding concerning God's covenants with man. The title page itself contains this statement by Moroni regarding the purposes of the book: "… to show unto the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever" (emphasis added).
As a result of his request for an interpretation of Lehi's tree of life dream, Nephi was shown the broad sweep of history leading to this present day.9 Central to all of it were the covenants of the Lord with his people. In vision Nephi beheld the discovery of America and "multitudes of the Gentiles upon the land of promise."10 They brought with them a book (the Holy Bible) "which contains the covenants of the Lord, which he hath made unto the house of Israel."11 But the "great and abominable church" had "taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away"12 (emphasis added). Through Nephi's seed, however, would come a record that would restore many of these plain and precious things, including truths concerning the covenants; "these last records … shall establish the truth of the first, … and shall make known the plain and precious things which have been taken away from them."13
Thus the Book of Mormon reestablishes truths associated with the sacred covenants of the Lord. Many of these truths we find reflected in the writings of Nephi. He delighted in the Lord's covenant with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob "to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee."14 All the families of the earth would be thus blessed "with the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of salvation."15 Nephi saw this covenant as the compass to safety that it is:
"My soul delighteth in the covenants of the Lord which he hath made to our fathers; yea, my soul delighteth in his grace, and in his justice, and power, and mercy in the great and eternal plan of deliverance from death."16
Nephi sought to teach his rebellious brothers that the Lord honored this covenant when he led Israel's children away from the fleshpots of Egypt, which was a spiritual wilderness.17 (It should be said here that mortality's journey to the promised land is always through a wilderness.) The Lord was true to his promise, but the Israelites honored not their fathers' covenant of righteousness and followed after iniquity.18 Consequently, they were left to dwell in the desert wilderness because they chose to dawdle in a spiritual one. Had they kept their covenants, they might have had a sure compass and a true azimuth through the wastelands of Sinai. Even the new generation after the 40-year sojourn was tested. They, too, hardened their hearts, and when the Lord "prepared a way that they might be healed" from the serpents' bites, "because of the simpleness of the way, or the easiness of it, there were many who perished."19
For Nephi, the parallel between these earlier Israelites' quest for the promised land and his own family's journey to their promised land was striking. He taught that Lehi and his family were a natural branch of the house of Israel that had been broken off.20 They would in due course dwindle in unbelief after the Messiah had manifested himself unto them. But in the latter days the Gentiles would bring them the fulness of the gospel.21 Then they would know that they are of the house of Israel, they would "come to the knowledge of their forefathers," and, most important, "they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine, that they may know how to come unto him and be saved. … Yea, at that day, will they not receive the strength and nourishment from the true vine? Yea, will they not come unto the true fold of God?"22
This Book of Mormon teaching provides keen insight into the operation of the Abrahamic covenant as it relates to all of Abraham's children. The blessings of the covenant between the Lord and Abraham were promised to Abraham's "seed," meaning his posterity. Thus, the covenant is in one sense biological and genealogical. It is this heritage that entitles the literal posterity of Abraham to hear the gospel preached unto them, that they might come to a "knowledge of their forefathers" and "of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine." But in the ultimate sense every soul, literal descendant of Abraham or not, must "come unto [the Redeemer] and be saved." Only then will that soul be entitled to "come unto the true fold of God." In other words, heirship to the eternal blessings promised to Abraham hinges on individual righteousness. It is not one's pedigree but one's obedience to the doctrine of Christ that qualifies him eternally as Abraham's seed.23
Ancient Israel failed to understand this critical point, explained so clearly by Nephi. This point is one of the "plain and precious truths" absent from or diluted in the Bible. Nephi's words give rich meaning to John the Baptist's injunction to prideful Israel in the Judean wilderness: "Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father; for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."24
Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, is the central part of the Abrahamic covenant. The Savior himself taught this doctrine when he appeared among the Nephites. He, as Jehovah, covenanted to gather Israel in the last days, and his covenant with Israel will not be fulfilled until Israel has been gathered together upon the lands of her inheritance.25 But Christ's teachings as recorded in the Book of Mormon make clear that inheritance under the Abrahamic covenant is conditioned upon following the Lord:
"For it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that at that day whosoever will not repent and come unto my Beloved Son, them will I cut off from among my people, O house of Israel."26
The Lord made covenants with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because he loved them.27 He loves us too. We may inherit the blessings of Abraham, but first we also must "do the works of Abraham."28 Hence, all who are of the lineage of Abraham—and members of the Church become his seed through their faithfulness—are potentially heir to the marvelous blessings given unto him by covenant. But the efficacy of that Abrahamic covenant is conditioned solely upon the keeping of individual covenants of obedience with the Lord.
One of the great doctrinal sermons of which we have record is King Benjamin's address to his people at the temple in the land of Zarahemla.29 That sermon must have been accompanied by a powerful witness of the Spirit, because when he had finished, King Benjamin inquired of his people what effect his words had had upon them and they exclaimed in unison:
"Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually. …
"And we are willing to enter into a covenant with our God to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things that he shall command us, all the remainder of our days."30
Hearing their joyous words, King Benjamin responded:
"Ye have spoken the words that I desired; and the covenant which ye have made is a righteous covenant.
"And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters."31
Thus the covenant of obedience—fundamental to all other covenants—is what qualifies us to become the "children of Christ."
A commitment to obedience is manifest in genuine repentance. Indeed, the principle of repentance is at the heart of the covenant of obedience.
The Lamanite king Lamoni and his people were converted through the teaching of Ammon and his brethren, the sons of Mosiah.32 Other Lamanites who had not been converted were stirred up to anger at the followers of Christ and came against them to war. But not a single soul among the converts would take up arms against their brethren, fearing they would jeopardize their repentance. Their feelings were eloquently expressed by Lamoni:
"Oh, how merciful is our God! And now behold, since it has been as much as we could do to get our stains taken away from us, and our swords are made bright, let us hide them away that they may be kept bright, as a testimony to our God at the last day."33
These repentant Lamanites in effect made a covenant with the Lord by promising never again to lift their swords, even if it meant giving up their lives.
The covenant of obedience and repentance is necessarily followed by the ordinance of baptism, as a witness of commitment:
"If this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?"34
Baptism makes the children of Christ members of his Church, eligible to receive the companionship of the Holy Spirit. This is the Lord's covenant promise to those who truly manifest, through the ordinance of baptism, their willingness to repent and obey. It is the Holy Spirit who will direct us from day to day as we seek the right path through this mortal wilderness.
Significantly, the Lord's program calls for the renewal of our covenant weekly as we partake of the emblems of the sacrament. Worthily partaking of these emblems is a "testimony unto the Father that ye do always remember me. And if ye do always remember me ye shall have my Spirit to be with you."35
Making covenants is important. But it is the keeping of covenants, even more than making them, that holds us on the correct course heading through mortality and leads us home to God. This essential truth is captured in a divinely profound syllogism which summarizes the dynamism and blessings associated with making and keeping covenants:
"And the first fruits of repentance is baptism; and baptism cometh by faith unto the fulfilling the commandments; and the fulfilling the commandments bringeth remission of sins;
"And the remission of sins bringeth meekness, and lowliness of heart; and because of meekness and lowliness of heart cometh the visitation of the Holy Ghost, which Comforter filleth with hope and perfect love, which love endureth by diligence unto prayer, until … all the saints shall dwell with God."36
Making sacred covenants brings the visitation of the Holy Ghost—the Comforter—who gives divine reassurance that we are on the right course. But to maintain that spiritual direction we must "endure by diligence," meaning to keep our covenants and pray always. The promised reward is the supreme heavenly gift, the opportunity to dwell with God. That is the ultimate "promised land" toward which the compass of our covenants points.
Sadly, there are some who, having embarked on the right path by making the fundamental covenants of obedience and baptism, allow their vision to become clouded by the things of the world—a stumbling block that Book of Mormon authors often referred to simply as "pride." Mormon makes this telling observation about the members of the Church in the days of Nephi, son of Helaman:
"And in the fifty and first year of the reign of the judges there was peace also, save it were the pride which began to enter into the church—not into the church of God, but into the hearts of the people who professed to belong to the church of God."37
Mormon's insight suggests that in that day the Church membership could be characterized by two concentric circles. The outer circle circumscribed all who had been baptized; that is, they had at least initially made the covenant of obedience and repented. But the inner circle, the "church of God," included only those who were true to their covenants. All of the others, merely professing membership, had drifted from their sacred covenants by allowing pride in its various manifestations to enter their hearts.
This insight about the ancient Church provides a sobering perspective on statements made to Nephi by an angel who spoke of the Church of Christ in our day. After asking Nephi whether he remembered the covenants made by the Lord with Israel, the angel said, referring to the latter days, that "there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations."38 Nephi then "beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few."39 That this "church of the Lamb" refers to those who both make and keep sacred covenants is indicated by the following passage:
"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory."40
Mere membership in the Church is not enough. Broken or disregarded covenants will do us no good. But those who keep their covenants with the Lord have his assurance that they will be "armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory." Holding to our covenants assures us the protection and deliverance of God from the dangers and pitfalls of this mortal wilderness. It assures us that we are on the road home.
After explaining that the Liahona worked by faith, Alma taught his son Helaman this great truth:
"And now, my son, I would that ye should understand that these things are not without a shadow; for as our fathers were slothful to give heed to this compass (now these things were temporal) they did not prosper; even so it is with things which are spiritual.
"For behold, it is as easy to give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss, as it was for our fathers to give heed to this compass, which would point unto them a straight course to the promised land. …
"O my son, do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way; for so was it with our fathers; for so was it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live; even so it is with us. The way is prepared, and if we will look we may live forever."41
Decades have passed now since those anxious days and nights in Ranger School and Vietnam, slogging through trackless swamps and canopied jungles. Yet the value of a simple compass remains vivid in the corridors of memory. With its ever true direction, the way was easy. But we had to look and follow to live. So with our covenants: The way truly is prepared, and if we look and follow we may live forever.
From the last page of the Book of Mormon, Moroni's powerful voice echoes down the centuries and beckons us:
"Awake, and arise from the dust, O Jerusalem; yea, and put on thy beautiful garments, O daughter of Zion; and strengthen thy stakes and enlarge thy borders forever, that thou mayest no more be confounded, that the covenants of the Eternal Father which he hath made unto thee, O house of Israel, may be fulfilled.
"Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him."42


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NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers pulled stocks lower Wednesday as U.S. markets reopened following the Christmas holiday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 49 points to 13,090 as of noon. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell seven to 1,419 and the Nasdaq composite lost 19 to 2,993.
Trading was quiet. European markets were still closed.
Major U.S. retailers fell following a glum report on U.S. holiday sales. Macy's and Urban Outfitters lost 3 percent. Sears Holdings fell nearly 5 percent.
The MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse report found that sales of electronics, clothing, jewelry and home goods increased just 0.7 percent in the two months before Christmas compared with the same period last year.
That's well below the growth of 3 to 4 percent growth that analysts had expected and the worst performance since 2008, when spending shrank during the Great Recession. Last year sales climbed 4 to 5 percent during November and December, according to ShopperTrak.
The disappointing holiday sales figures outweighed the latest hopeful indicator on the U.S. housing market.
Home prices rose in most major U.S. cities in October compared with the same month a year ago, according to the latest Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller national home price index. Sales rose at the same time the supply of available homes declined. The index increased 4.3 percent, the largest year-over-year jump in two and a half years, when a homebuyer tax credit temporarily boosted sales.
Retailers and other consumer discretionary stocks led the market lower. Macy's gave up $1.05 to $36.48, Target fell 73 cents to $58.81, Urban Outfitters fell $1.21 to $38.09 and Sears Holdings fell $1.80 to $38.47. Coach, the luxury handbag maker, sank $3.20 to $54.32, a decline of 6 percent, the biggest in the S&P 500 index.
Traders were also watching to see if a budget agreement materializes in Washington. President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas vacation in Hawaii and was returning to Washington later Wednesday to resume budget talks with Congressional Republicans.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note edged down to 1.75 percent from 1.77 percent Monday. Trading was closed Tuesday for the Christmas holiday. Oil prices rose. Benchmark crude gained $2.37 to $90.98 a barrel.
Japanese stocks hit a nine-month high as a pro-business government prepared to assume leadership. The Nikkei 225 index surged 1.5 percent to 10,230.36.
Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has put pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise its inflation target. The goal is to extricate the country from two decades of deflation, or declining prices, which has deadened the world's third-largest economy.


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Great, stupid people trying to break the internet. If only they'd try make the world a better place for once but noo, gotta go making it worse.
You must've all heard about it by now and I'm sure it must be getting alot of attention in the US, so pretty scary stuff isn't?


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EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC ACX review -
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Today a review the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC ACX edition. The Superclocked model comes with a nice factory tweak and that all new ball bearing fan based ACX cooler. The card, thanks to its factory overclock is almost as fast as a GeForce GTX Titan, 100% cool and very silent.
The GeForce GTX 780 is NVIDIAs all new high-end graphics card based in their Flagship product, the GTX Titan. This means it is based on the GK110 GPU and has an whopping 7.1 Billion transistors. That makes it a nice chunk faster opposed to the GeForce GTX 680 GPU. We test the product with the hottest games like Metro: Last light, Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more.
Just like Titan, the GTX 780 is based on the GK110 GPU with the distinctions that the Titan has a GK110-300 GPU and the GeForce GTX 780 a GK110-400 GPU. Same stuff, yet with some things disabled. But we are a bit surprised to see NVIDIA move forward with GK110, See, the GK110 chip is BIG, and that makes it a difficult chip to bake, its recipe is refined though as the product has 2304 Shader Processing Units, 192 TMUs and 32 ROPs on a 384-bit memory interface of fast GDDR5. So yeah, NVIDIA trimmed down that that 45 mm × 45 mm 2397-pin S-FCBGA Titian with its 2688 shader/stream/CUDA processors a bit.
Memory wise you are looking at 3GB over 6 GB, that is still huge (12 pieces of 64M ×16 GDDR5 SDRAM) of memory (384-bit) on there and started designing a bunch of new tricks at BIOS and driver level. Combined with GPU Boost 2.0 you will see this product boosting towards the 1100~1150 MHz range once you tweak it. The reference clock is 863 MHz with a boost clock of 900 MHz. Looking at the specs you must think that this product must consume heaps of power, well it's not great, but definitely not bad at all. The maximum allowed board design power draw is roughly 250 Watt, which considering what this product is, is good.
But let's say hello to Titan's little brother first, say hello to the GeForce GTX 780 from EVGA, this is the 3GB SC (SuperClocked) ACX (cooler) edition that comes factory clocked for you at 967 MHz (Ref 863) with a Boost clock of 1020 MHz (Ref 900) all based on a 6+2 Power Phase design. A card with great looks, performance and a superb x-factor as it overclockes nicely as well.
Have a peek and then head onwards into the review.
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Australian space exploration
Until the twentieth century, the idea of space travel was too advanced kinds of scientists or writers with great imagination.
The knowledge of space, if only you could see with the naked eye, was limited and often based more on magic or religious beliefs in reality.
Since 1600, studies of Kepler, the invention of the telescope and Galileo observations changed the scene. But despite the improved observation instruments, still hooked to ground.
Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the space race intensified. The Germans had perfected the rockets and expertise were crucial to the Russians and Americans.
When you get cross the Earth's atmosphere began the space age, satellites and probes first, then with manned spacecraft.
The Soviets (now Russians are called) launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, on 4 October 1957. A month later, on November 3, sent the first living being, the dog Laika, aboard Sputnik II.
In February 1958, the U.S. put into orbit on Explorer I, its first satellite. On April 12, 1961 the Soviets made the first manned flight and Yuri Gagarin was the first astronaut. After the American Alan B. Shepard left about fifteen minutes outside his capsule. It was the first spacewalk.
Since 1966 the aim was the moon and the Americans arrived earlier. On July 21, 1969 Apollo XI capsule remained in lunar orbit while the module Eagle down to the surface. Neil Armstrong became the first human walked on the moon.
Russians also came to the moon and also from 1971 dedicated their efforts to build a space station. After the Americans did. Europe and Japan created their own space agencies and began to participate. Space exploration thus became an international project.
In addition to manned trips have been sent into space with instruments spacecraft exploring the solar system: The Voyager, which has been photographed up close almost all the planets, the Mars Pathfinder, which has been ridden by Mars, or the Hubble telescope placed in orbit and, from outside the atmosphere, picture the universe as we had never seen.


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Review panel backs ousted gay teen's bid for Eagle Scout
A district Boy Scout review board in the San Francisco Bay Area, overruling a local Scoutmaster, has challenged the national organization's ban on gays by formally recommending that an openly gay former Scout be awarded the top rank of Eagle Scout.
But while supporters of 18-year-old Ryan Andresen, of Moraga, Calif., claimed victory, the Texas-based Boy Scouts of America said his expulsion remained in effect, according to news reports.
Andresen and his parents drew national attention in October after his Scoutmaster refused to sign his Eagle Scout application because of his sexual orientation, even though he met all the qualifications.
For his Eagle Scout project, Ryan built a "Tolerance Wall" for his former middle school to show victims of bullying that they are not alone.
Ryan's parents took the case to the local Mount Diablo-Silverado Council review board, which received the case before Ryan was formally expelled by the Scouts organization.
In a unanimous vote, the four-person board forwarded the application to the national Eagle Board of review with a recommendation that Ryan receive the award, Ryan's father, Eric Andresen, said Tuesday.
"The board didn't look at whether he was gay or not, but whether he completed the requirements to be an Eagle Scout," Andresen said. "I'm not sure sexual orientation was a factor in their decision."
Bonnie Hazarabedian, who chaired the Boy Scout district review board, told Reuters that the BSA anti-gay policy is "something out of the Dark Ages," but added that Ryan's sexual orientation was not relevant to whether he should get the award.
"We felt without a doubt he deserved that rank," she said.
John Fenoglio, Scout executive for the Mount Diablo-Silverado Council, said Tuesday morning that he had ruled Andresen's submission was still ineligible and would not be forwarded to the national organization for final approval, the Bay Area News Group reported.
But Deron Smith, director of publication relations for Boy Scouts of America, issued this statement:
The Eagle application was forwarded, by a volunteer, to the local council but it was not approved because this young man proactively stated that he does not agree to Scouting's principle of "Duty to God" and does not meet Scouting's membership requirements. Therefore, he is not eligible to receive the rank of Eagle
Tuesday afternoon, in an e-mail to USA TODAY, Hazarabedian expressed puzzlement about Fenoglio's statement.
Our community is standing behind Ryan Andresen. When I dropped off Ryan's unanimously approved Eagle Board of Review application and report on December 31, Mr. Fenoglio looked me in the eyes, patted the stack of papers, and said, 'We'll sign it and send it on, but can't promise what will happen from there.' I'm totally perplexed by this statement from Scout Executive Fenoglio, a man I greatly respect and admire.
Andresen's father said that for Ryan, an honor student who is studying for final exams, the process has been "overwhelming and frustrating."
"Getting that Eagle award is not so important to him right now, he is so disappointed in the Boy Scouts," his father said. "But he recognizes that he had a chance to help a lot of other Scouts out there."
Andresen, who resigned as a Scout leader over the incident, said Ryan has received a "huge outpouring of support" nationwide, including from 20 or 30 Eagle Scouts who sent him their own Eagle medals.
More than 463,000 people also signed a petition by Ryan's mother, Karen Andresen, at change.org in support of her son's case.
"I'm just so incredibly happy for Ryan," she said in a statement following the review board's decision. "He's worked so hard for this honor, and as a mother, it means the world to me to know that our local Scouting community believes in him, too."
Andresen said it would be "incredibly brave" if the national organization reversed itself over the case, although he said that probably won't happen in the short run.
"But when they do change their position, and it will happen -- it has to -- maybe at that point they may go back and retroactively award the Eagle to Ryan," he said.


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Washington, D.C. -- The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds skincare company, Origins, for abandoning plans for a swim-with dolphins prize at Cabo Dolphins in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Initially Origins had planned a promotional give-away of an opportunity to swim with the dolphins. AWI contacted the company regarding the cruelty inherent in the captive dolphin trade. Origins promptly responded by changing the prize, part of its "Leave it all Behind" sweepstakes, stating "…Origins would never intentionally participate in any activities that do not align with our Company's principles…we will no longer include this offer as part of the prize package."
Many aquarium dolphins have been captured from the wild and suffer shock, stress, injury and even death because of the brutal manner in which they are seized. The dolphins at Cabo Dolphins came from Japan, renowned for its controversial dolphin hunts including Taiji, where entire pods of dolphins are regularly herded into a shallow bay. Some are sold to aquariums, including swim-with programs, for as much as $150,000 each and the fishermen kill the remainder by slashing their throats and stabbing them with spears.
Captive dolphins' lives contrast starkly to those of their wild relatives. Highly intelligent animals with complex societies, wild dolphins travel up to 40 miles a day together and dive hundreds of feet in search of food but they are unable to do this in a small tank or sea pen. Aquarium dolphins are forced to perform tricks and interact with humans with no place to hide which can cause stress and stomach ulcers.
Since its launch in 1990, Origins has focused on providing animal and environmentally friendly plant-based cosmetic products. The company was the first major cosmetic brand to choose not to test their products on animals. "Origins has a long history of commitment to protect the planet and those who populate it," said AWI's President Cathy Liss, "so their compassionate decision to dissociate themselves from dolphin swim-with programs is in keeping with their philosophy."
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Al-Jirashi said the demolition was carried out without prior notice. He said, however, that it was not clear whether his properties were in Area B or C, although he insisted the structures were built legally in Bethlehem with the necessary permits from the Palestinian Authority.
While demolitions are frequent in Area C – around 60 percent of the occupied West Bank that is under full Israeli military control – demolitions in Area A and B are less common and a violation of the Oslo Accords of 1993.
Silwan resident Khalid al-Zeir told Ma'an News that armed Israeli forces escorted excavators early on Tuesday morning to a playground he built in the al-Abbasiyya area of Silwan.
According to al-Zeir, the excavators levelled his land and demolished a playground he had built, a storage room and fences, and some trees were also cut down.
The owner was notified by Israel's Nature and National Parks Authority that his playground was built on "historically important archaeological area", where construction is prohibited.
The local Wadi Hilweh center said Israeli authorities are escalating demolitions in Silwan, with at least four demolitions having been carried out in the neighbourhood this month.
Last week, the UN warned the village of Khirbet Tana in the Jordan Valley faced the risk of "forcible transfer" after a wave of Israeli demolitions left more than a third of its residents homeless.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in the demolitions are part of one of the most extensive demolition campaigns in the West Bank in recent year, which left more than 650 Palestinians homeless in less than three months.
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Back in 2005, Kojima Productions rolled out the first look at Metal Gear Solid 4. It's 2008 and game site 1up is looking back with Metal Gear Solid 4 Associate Producer Ryan Payton — who was since left the company. This exchange is insightful:
1UP: "Nowhere to hide" was one of the promises in MGS4's first teaser trailer, suggesting dynamic, destructible environments...which weren't really present in the final game. What happened to them? Will we ever see a Metal Gear like that? RP: It's fun to go back and look at that trailer, since it was made so early in the production of the game. I think it's safe to say that we didn't even know exactly what MGS4 was going to be when we made that.
Yeah, that early bill of sale doesn't look like the final product. Payton's right though, it is fun to go back and look at that trailer. The expectations it created and the hype it built, not so fun.
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I am standing in the alligator pit. This is not a euphemism. About 10 feet away, a dozen gators slowly swirl around an ankle-deep pool of swamp water. My job: Walk in, haul one of these critters onto a patch of sand, and tackle him before he flips me into the famed "death roll."
At times like these, I have flashes of my real life — Boston Globe arts reporter, husband, father of two — and I consider the absurdity of the moment. I've wrestled with some elusive sources over the years, but never one who could bite my arms off.
The director signals that we're rolling. My green T-shirt is sweat-plastered to my skin as I spring into action as host and writer of "Edge of America," a new series set to premiere Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. on the Travel Channel. I'm following in the footsteps of bad-boy chef Anthony Bourdain ("No Reservations"), the free-eating Andrew Zimmern ("Bizarre Foods"), and pig-out master Adam Richman ("Man v. Food").
My show is about the unexpected things people around the country do for entertainment and fun. I'm not just scribbling in my notebook. I'm throwing myself into the action.
That means bike-jousting in Oregon, racing lobster boats in Maine, and, in this case, tackling an alligator in Florida. Why alligators? Because the whole point of "Edge" is not to do the predictable. No trip to Disney or Miami Beach for our Florida episode. Instead, I headed to Pensacola for a localized version of Spain's running of the bulls, only with roller derby girls, and to Weeki Wachee Springs to experience life as a mermaid. I also explored another popular entertainment option that falls outside the mainsteam, the Native Village in Hollywood, Fla. This place is known for its gator wrestling shows.
Under the watchful eyes of our guides — they coached me for about a half-hour; they also had me sign a "death waiver" — I haul the gator out of the muck. He's much heavier than I anticipated, hundreds of pounds, and his claws grip into the sand to resist. I strain, keep pulling, and then, in the split second he's in position, launch myself like a juiced-up linebacker.
"America, you are welcome," I shout, as soon as I've got his jaws apart. The clouds open, as if on cue, and I leap off my gator and dart to the opposite side of the pen.
So how did a 42-year-old writer with a liberal arts degree from Tufts University end up wrestling alligators on national TV?
A few years ago I produced and starred in a documentary, "Do It Again," chronicling my attempt to reunite the '60s rock band The Kinks. David Padrusch, a friend who happens to be a Travel Channel executive, saw the film at the Independent Film Festival Boston and later recruited me. That led to the 13-episode season 1 of "Edge of America."
I know what you've probably read about "reality" or nonfiction TV. That it's staged or scripted. I can't speak for those bearded "Duck Dynasty" guys with their oh-so-perfect one-liners, nor for the entire industry, particularly since I still feel about as much a part of it as a pork roast at a PETA convention. But if you're wondering about whether I have a stunt double, talk to Frank.
He's my physical therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital. I started seeing Frank after hurting my right shoulder throwing a rusty bike at a competition in Oregon. Sometimes, my ailing wing improves. Then I head to the next shoot and do something stupid. Like play unicycle football. Back at MGH, Frank smiles, shakes his head, and assesses the damage.
Nobody at Magilla, "Edge of America"'s production company, or Travel Channel forces me to bike-joust. In fact, there's always a staffer on set trying to get me to wear a bigger helmet or strap on my seat belt. By now, though, they've realized that I'm my own worst boss. If we're going to do this show, we're going to do it. You can't really feel what it's like to leap into the unknown unless you're willing to, well, leap.
Living the experience . . . of haggis
I am sitting at a table in a field and wearing a kilt. Behind me, a dozen men blow bagpipes. As hundreds of people cheer, a steaming tube of animal innards is placed under my nose. The gun sounds and, using my hands, I begin to shovel the revolting meat into my mouth as quickly as possible. Gag. David Lynch couldn't cook up a scene this bizarre.
This haggis eating contest is just one of my experiences at the Celtic Classic, which draws a quarter of a million people to Bethlehem, Pa. And despite the temporary nastiness, it's what I love about "Edge of America." This is not a show about stuffing my face. It's about living the experience. I can be eating haggis one moment and throwing a giant log — the caber — the next. I now get paid to fly planes, crash cars, shoot pigs, climb trees, and chase down rattlesnakes. For somebody who grew up reading Jack Kerouac, followed Charles Kuralt's rambles, and spent the last few years watching Bourdain on "No Reservations," it's a dream come true.
As host and writer, my job is to make sure each episode has my best performance and voice. Magilla takes care of virtually everything else, from budgets to editing to snacks.
But as much as I enjoy making "Edge of America," I'm not ready to trade in my laptop just yet. I love writing, feel a deep connection to Boston, my hometown, and to The Boston Globe. I've spent more than a decade building up the arts beat and I know how to cover it. I'm also no idiot. Even "All in the Family" got canceled. I haven't even hit the air yet.
So we've tried to cope. For me, that has meant working seven days a week for nearly five months. I fix up Globe stories in deep Maine, rural Oklahoma, and Ouray, Colo. One afternoon my editor called to chat about an assignment. I didn't have the heart to tell her that, as we spoke, I was lying on a dock in Florida wearing a mermaid's fin.
The sacrifice for my wife, Carlene — a writer who teaches journalism full time at Northeastern University — has been considerable. She's played single parent with Lila, 10, and Cal, 2. She also had to take a year off from leading journalism students through the Middle East each summer. Carlene and I have had to deal with being apart. That's the funny thing about being a Travel Channel host: I love traveling, but I love it most with my wife. And I miss being home, sitting in front of the fire with Carlene, sharing the Sunday paper.
That said, I'm proud of "Edge of America." Making it has taught me that the creative process, at its best, is similar whether creating TV or writing a story. To make something special, you need to stretch yourself and take chances. Which might explain how, on a sunbaked afternoon in April, I ended up in a field in Oklahoma with a pair of clamps and an angry bull.
Why was I here to castrate a bull? Because in Stillwater, the annual Calf Fry draws thousands of people for music, beer and, yes, calf fries — otherwise known as sliced, battered, deep-fried bull testicles. They're a tradition in Oklahoma, where cowboys have been performing this act to keep the beasts from mauling each other, and also because the meat of a bull is too tough for anything other than bologna.
I could have handled the annual Calf Fry like many TV hosts. Go to the festival, chew on a cooked testicle, and make a funny face. But that's not why I signed onto "Edge of America." This show is about going under the surface. About understanding the roots of popular and special local events that the rest of the country has probably never heard of. You might wince as I do the deed — I know I did — but I imagine you'll also find yourself wanting to watch the next segment, just to find out where this leap takes me next.
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A Sandwich a Day: Hoagie Svenska from The Nook at Red Rooster
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know.—The Mgmt.
It's shocking to me how many different complete concepts can be eked out in the single space that Red Rooster occupies on 125th and Lenox. It's like the Swiss Army Knife of restaurants. There's the main restaurant upstairs, which also houses a large cocktail bar and a walk-in-only cafe and patio. On weekends it's live jazz and soul. Downstairs is Ginny's Supper Club, with a completely different menu, and live music or DJ's every night of the week. Add to that list The Nook the new take-out-only lunch and brunch spot housed in what used to be the bookstore by the main entrance (yes, they had a bookstore).
On the menu: four sandwiches between $7 and $8 apiece, and a dozen or so pastries and cookies ranging from lingonberry jam-stuffed brioche rolls ($1.95), to curry-spiced, oatmeal-blueberry cookie sandwiches ($1.50).
There's the makings of a great fried chicken sandwich in the Chickety Split ($6.95), if only the biscuit could be a bit lighter. Similarly, the Atta Boy ($7.95) is a vegetarian roti that could use a bit more moisture. Hopefully these little complaints can be chalked up to opening blues.
For now, it's the Hoagie Svenska ($6.95) that's worth picking up. It's a soft-but-sturdy brioche roll shaped like a hot dog bun, stuffed with Red Rooster's excellent signature Swedish meatballs. Lingonberry mayonnaise binds a crunchy apple and beet salad that gets piled on top, while quick sweet pickled cucumbers, fresh chopped dill, and a sprinkle of crispy fried onions finish it off.
Room-temperature meatballs don't sound like they should taste good, much less great, but this sandwich is the exception that proves the rule.*
*please excuse my imprecise, loose rhetorical usage of that expression. You know what I mean.
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Bus gets stuck in suburban Phoenix sinkhole
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A city bus got stuck in a sinkhole after a water main broke in suburban Phoenix, forcing the passengers and driver to evacuate through the windows.
Tempe police say the back right side of the bus fell into the hole at about 10 a.m. Wednesday. All 11 passengers and the driver got out safely.
It took about two hours for city crews to shut off all the valves and stop the flow of water in the area of Apache Boulevard and McClintock Drive.
Two tow trucks tried to pull the bus from the sinkhole, but authorities say the bus was too heavy. A crane was brought in and hoisted the bus out of the sinkhole around 5 p.m.
Some residents in the area reported water damage in their homes, and the operators of a motel said some guests had to be moved out after water covered the bottom floor.
Authorities say the cause of the water main break hasn't been determined, but it likely was due to the age of the infrastructure. Police say nearby light rail tracks weren't impacted by the water and trains were still operating.


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You can't get more niche than a phone accessory that's also a phone, but that's exactly what Japanese network Willcom has got here in the miniscule WX03A "strap phone" – a candy-bar handset that attaches to another phone. The device weighs in just 33g, crammed in a 32 x 70mm frame boasting a thickness of 10.5mm – which, as you can see, compares favorably with a packet of curiously-named Japanese mints. With the space at a premium, features are very thin on the ground; no Bluetooth, memory card slot or even email functionality. There is, however, an infrared connection (for exchanging contacts), microUSB port, headphone socket and a battery capable of 300 hours standby. Those genuinely interested in carrying two handsets can pick one up in December, and we hope to see in-the-wild pictures of lop-sided, dual-phone nunchucks soon after.
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The bombing by the Israeli air force on Wednesday of an arms depot on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus was not a surprise.
Last weekend, Israel's newly re-elected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is reported to have sent envoys to Washington and Moscow to reassure the United States and Russia that the impending attack was not an intervention in Syria's two-year civil war.
It was, said the envoys, part of the Jerusalem government's continuing semi-clandestine war to stem the flow of increasingly sophisticated weapons to the anti-Israeli terrorist group Hezbollah, which is in control of much of Israel's northern neighbour Lebanon.
This would not have come as a surprise to Moscow or Washington. For months, Israel has been warning that it would act if there was any indication that the besieged Damascus regime of President Bashar Assad attempted to send its stocks of chemical weapons or other sophisticated armaments to Hezbollah.
The message that something serious was imminent was even more evident in recent days as tens of thousands of gas masks were distributed to people in northern Israel bordering Lebanon and a full-scale gas-attack exercise was held.
Israel also deployed its so-called Iron Dome anti-missile system in the north of the country as part of the exercise.
For many Israeli security officials, Hezbollah is the most immediate and serious threat to their country. Hezbollah's main source of weapons, Iran, may be trying to acquire the capacity to build nuclear weapons. And another Iranian proxy terrorist group, Hamas in Gaza, is an irritant with its regular attacks using short-range rockets smuggled in across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
But Hezbollah is a more skilled and immediate danger.
In the 34-day war in southern Lebanon in 2006, Hezbollah claimed to have fought the Israeli army to a standstill and has received much adulation in the Middle East as a result.
Since then, Hezbollah has ignored United Nations resolution 1701 calling for an embargo on arms shipments to Lebanon.
There are reports that Hezbollah has even acquired Scud D surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 700 kilometres and capable of carrying a one-ton warhead.
Two of these missiles originating in North Korea and supplied with the help of Iran and Syria are reported to have been sent to Hezbollah in 2010 and another eight in 2011.
Until the outbreak of the long-running uprising in Syria nearly two years ago, Hezbollah let Syrian President Bashar Assad store many of the group's most sophisticated weapons. But since the start of the Syrian uprising Hezbollah has been moving its stockpiles of weapons to Lebanon.
The Israeli air force has absolute control over Lebanese air space and conducts constant intelligence-gathering flights. All Hezbollah weapons caches in Lebanon are thus vulnerable to Israeli discovery and attack.
Hezbollah apparently figures the risk of losing its weapons to Israeli attacks in Lebanon is less than the near-certainty of losing them all when the Assad regime collapses in Syria.
Among the weapons reported destroyed in Wednesday's attack on the Damascus weapons depot, which the Syrian government described as a "scientific research facility, were Hezbollah's stockpile of SA-17 anti-aircraft weapons. There were indications trucks were forming up a convoy at the depot to carry these to Lebanon.
These Russian-made mobile weapons are reputed to be among the most sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons on the market. They have a range of about 25 kilometres and emit a low radar signature, which makes them hard to detect.
If Hezbollah had take delivery of the missiles, it would have ended the impunity of Israeli reconnaissance flights over Lebanon.
Since the end of the 2006 war in southern Lebanon, Israel has been constantly on the alert for weapons destined for Hezbollah and swift to act when shipments have been detected.
In 2009, Israel carried out two attacks in Sudan, one on a truck convoy and one on a ship in Port Sudan, believed to be carrying weapons from Iran for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Also in 2009 three ships suspected of carrying Iranian arms destined for Hezbollah in defiance of the UN embargo were detained at sea.
One, the Russian registered container ship Monchegorsk, was seized by the U.S. navy and found to be carrying a large cargo of artillery shells and other ammunition. The ship was held in Cyprus where it later blew up, killing 12 people.
In October last year, the Israeli air force bombed a munitions factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum which was allegedly making weapons for Hezbollah and Hamas.
In November 2011, a massive Hezbollah arms cache near Siddiqin close to Lebanon's southern port city of Tyre exploded. There is speculation it was attacked by an Israeli missile-equipped drone aircraft.
In October last year, there were a series of blasts at a Hezbollah weapons storage depot in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley.
And, in mid-December, a Hezbollah arms store blew up in the southern Lebanese town of Tairharfa close to the border with Israel.