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TOKYO—While Japan has 100 million Internet users—third most on the planet—and some of the most sophisticated mobile devices on the market, it can still be hard to find a wireless hotspot here.
- Free Wi-Fi on domestic flights until Jan. 2 as part of promotion with Google. Then service starts at $4.95 per flight
- Delta aims to have Wi-Fi on more than 80% of its U.S. fleet by the end of 2011
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The spread of smartphones and gadgets using Wi-Fi such as Apple Inc. AAPL -0.77 % iPad tablets and Nintendo Co.'s DS portable game players has only heightened demand for wireless Internet connectivity.
Airlines, commuter trains and intercity buses across the globe already offer Wi-Fi connections to travelers. But Japan's largest mobile carrier by subscribers, NTT DoCoMo Inc., is taking wireless connectivity one step further by allowing Internet-hungry gadgets to get online inside Tokyo taxi cabs.
There are Wi-Fi hotspots in Japanese train stations, highway rest stops and even McDonald's restaurants. Yet Japan ranks eighth among countries for the number of public hotspots based on locations registered with JiWire, a San Francisco firm that delivers mobile ads.
DoCoMo has started offering free Wi-Fi in 820 of the cabs from Tokyo's biggest taxi company, Tokyo Musen Cooperative, by outfitting the cars with a Wi-Fi router that converts the carrier's cellular signal into a personal wireless hotspot.
- Free on all Acela Express trips
- Wi-Fi available on Japan's bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka starting at around 500 yen per day
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"With the growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers like iPads, the demand for Wi-Fi is really growing," said Shintaro Oka, a manager in DoCoMo's promotion group who is overseeing the project.
The company is placing the Wi-Fi devices in about 20% of Tokyo Musen's fleet and the service will be free, even for passengers that aren't DoCoMo customers, until March 31, 2011.
While the number of Wi-Fi taxi cabs account for less than 2% of Tokyo's roughly 50,000 taxi cars, the roll-out is part of a nationwide campaign by DoCoMo to promote its so-called Mi-Fi routers, which offer the broad coverage area of a cellular network with the ability to connect multiple devices to the Web at one time
The carrier is also mulling expanding the marketing campaign to include taxis in other major Japanese cities. DoCoMo charges about 10,000 yen ($120) upfront to buy the Mi-Fi device, which is about the size of a stack of business cards, and the user is billed 4,410 yen a month for an unlimited data plan.
- The service operating mostly in northeast U.S. offers free Wi-Fi
- Free Wi-Fi on its buses in the U.S., Canada and U.K.
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- Buses connecting Oxford and London offer free Wi-Fi on board
DoCoMo is in a similar position as U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless. It is turning to Mi-Fi devices to collect data transmission revenue from gadgets outside of its product line-up such as Apple's iPad. The Apple tablet works only on rival carriers' 3G services but DoCoMo can circumvent Softbank Corp.'s 9984 0.02 % hold on the device's data revenue with the Mi-Fi router a Wi-Fi version of the iPad.
Ryutaro Ueno, a spokesman for Tokyo Musen taxi service, said it will have to consider keeping in-taxi Wi-Fi if customers find the service convenient and start to ask for it. But he said there are still unanswered questions about who eventually foots the bill and whether the service would be free to the passenger after the promotion ends.
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- 820 Tokyo cabs offer free Wi-Fi until March 31
- Plans to outfit livery cars and limos in New York with free, advertising-supported Wi-Fi
Mr. Ueno said one of Tokyo Musen's drivers picked up a mother and young son who had been searching for one of the Wi-Fi cabs so he could use the vehicle's Internet connectivity to play friends online with his PlayStation Portable. Tokyo Musen cabs with Wi-Fi will be painted black, rather than green, and have a small red W-Fi sticker on the passenger side rear window.
Japanese Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie sent a message to his Twitter followers saying: "In a DoCoMo Wi-Fi taxi now, how pleasant." But some users on Twitter questioned whether Wi-Fi would be useful in a taxi since it only covers short distances, while others worried that they would suffer from motion–sickness from surfing the Web or playing videogames in the back of a moving car.
DoCoMo said it addressed some security and privacy concerns with the free Wi-Fi service by disabling a feature that allows Wi-Fi gadgets to circumvent the router and communicate directly with each other. To access the taxi's Internet connection, users need to use a password that is found in a pamphet within the cab.
For Tokyo Musen, the company had another concern.
"Some of our drivers are quite advanced in age, so many don't really understand the service," said Mr. Ueno. "DoCoMo has made it so that passengers can figure out how to use the service without needing the driver's help."
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The Bush administration is currently negotiating a long-term Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government, which would codify "legal protections for U.S. military personnel and property in Iraq" after 2008, when a U.N. security mandate runs out. People in both Iraq and the United States have criticized the deal's sweeping demands, including 58 permanent bases, "control of Iraqi airspace," and immunity for U.S. troops and private contractors.
Because of these demands, Iraqi officials said they were likely to miss a July target for coming to an agreement. New remarks by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reveal, however, that U.S. negotiators have finally backed down and conceded that the estimated 160,000 foreign contractors in Iraq would no longer have immunity.
Additionally, the Bush administration has consistently insisted that it doesn't need congressional approval for the deal. Yet it appears that this stance was nothing more than posturing, as officials are now reworking the agreement with new language in order to actually avoid going before Congress:
U.S. and Iraqi officials negotiating long-term security agreements have reworded a proposed White House commitment to defend Iraq against foreign aggression in an effort to avoid submitting the deal for congressional approval, Iraq's foreign minister said yesterday.
The alternative under discussion will pledge U.S. forces to "help Iraqi security forces to defend themselves," rather than a U.S. promise to defend Iraq, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said. Although "it's the other way around," he said, "the meaning is the same, almost."
As Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Lawrence J. Korb notes, traditionally, SOFAs provide a "framework for legal protections and rights while U.S. personnel are present in a country for agreed on purposes"; they do not, either directly or indirectly, pledge to defend a foreign government:
The fact that the administration does not intend to submit the agreement for congressional approval is a testament to their own recognition of how the broad the implications of this agreement are and what type of debate it would spark on Capitol Hill and in the country.
As ThinkProgress has noted in the past, this broad SOFA with Iraq may be the Bush administration's roundabout way of authorizing war with Iran.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has put out a statement on Zebari's remarks:
Altering the language so as to disguise the true nature of a permanent American commitment to Iraq is irresponsible in the extreme. It is for precisely this reason I have called on the Administration to engage in more frequent and more frank consultations with the Congress as these negotiations move forward.


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Did he post those on the internet, too????
I didn't think it was all that impressive.
This was my life-long democrat mother's reaction to Clinton's lies. She has never voted again.
She has a good sense of Huma.
Based on looking at the photos, I think you mean he MISLAID his supporters.
I would call it "phony sex."
If you were Little Anthony, I don't think you could look really hard.
. . . he wouldn't be a Democrat.
Barney Frank has your back.
Oh, I disagree! I thought you were fools LONG before this!
Weiner was stiffboated.
I see now you beat me to the idea. See post 38. GMTA!
"Freudenschade" is defined as the premature elation of the DUmmies, when they pop the champagne corks too soon.
Yours was better, and you remembered to use "CHIX." Hehe!
I think that was the first graphic I made when Fitzmas popped. It was like a couple-three days after the initial prediction by Wee Willy. I'm sure it's still on an old PC of mine, but it's also archived on Photobucket. Fun 'n games...
Was it a "Double Polaroid?"
Major Career Shrinkage for the Weiner
This was a good update; thank you. Out of curiosity I had been having a peek at DU prior to Weiner's presser. They must have posted a hundred threads smearing Breitbart in the most vulgar ways imaginable. It is so sweet to see the rug yanked out from under them. And yes, their heads are aching. It couldn't happen to a meaner bunch.
How much money do you save on coupons in a normal year?
I hate to break it to the DUmmies, but that ship sailed a long time ago. DUmmies ALWAYS look like fools; they don't need Weiner's weiner for that.
Yeah, I think it will be a cold day in hell when the RATS stand up beside this little s46t expecting to be taken serious. He must not have much respect for his party to force it to defend him as this implicitly does.
But it is fuuunnnny.
I try to avoid "Freudenschade" but this is just too rich. So obvious from day 1!
Good question but it isn't only how much I SAVE but also about how much more I get. I figure $100 per week is a conservative estimate. Of course, since I got my computer for FREE that was almost $400 right there. IF/WHEN I figure out how to get free gas, then that is AT LEAST another $100 in savings per week. So that would make $200 savings per week.
Sweet keep giving it to the Man. LoL.
The funny part PJ is that this idiot actually believes her conservative friends "listen" them. Oh, they hear ya but listen?
Persuades them not to be such douchebags? SOB is lucky I wasn't a co-worker. I'll just say "traction".
I never knew Arnold Horshack became a Congressman.
Erections have consequences.
I only logged on tonight to see your comments.
It was well worth the time!!!!
Yeah, how dare they actually do their job when it's a Democrat! If this were a Republican, this wouldn't even scratch the surface of the how invasive the questions would be.
Our chief enemy is Brietbart. Brietbart and proper grammar.
Our two chief enemies are Brietbart, proper grammar, and rethuglican politicians.
Our three chief enemies are Brietbart, proper grammar, rethuglican politicians, and soap.
Amongst our enemies are such diverse elements as Brietbart, proper grammar, rethuglican politicians, soap, and a slavish devotion to using four-letter words... damn... I'll come in again.
...this POS Breitbart is lying again.
I suppose it's too much to ask that these DUmmies and KOmmies actually show when Brietbart ever lied. Of course, with the lefties, it's probably just like saying Palin is dumb -- they do it without any factual basis because "everyone" "knows" it.
That is rich. No (d) has ever been banished from office and the (R) will leave for bad decisions.
I'm pissed. I look like a f*cking jerk for defending the guy to my conservative friends. I'll be eating crap and they won't listen to a damn thing I say politically for the next four months. Sometimes I can persuade them to not be such douchebags, but I'm in for a very uncomfortable time now. Thanks, Rep Weiner.
[LOL! Freudenschade, baby! I sure wish I could have a video camera recording your next encounter with your conservative friends.]
LOL, dims are always jerks, even when they are not in trouble. I have a few I deal with, and they have been strangely silent since this broke.
. . . he wouldn't be a Democrat.
Thread winner there. You nailed it.
"good. I'm sick of sex being a dealbreaker. People have sex lives. Public people sometimes have their sex lives splattered all over the media."
At least he didn't proposition another adult who happened to be a paige. That would have been truly worthy of a black balling.
"I believe in individual privacy,"
Except when it comes to maintaining medical records in a federal data base. Then individual privacy is irrelevent per the Weinder vote.
Huma probably knew about this since sending lewd pics back and forth was most likely part of their courtship.
Turns out Brietbart knew about Weiner's randy communications at least a week prior to his peter-tweeter.
It shouldn't be too difficult to get a female journalist to subscribe to Weiner's account. My thinking is, Weiner's peter-tweeter was sent to Breitbart by Weiner himself.
And DUmmie, the douche bag tag is getting so stale. You'd be much more comfortable as an enema bag, like this very nice looking men's model.
I think its very likely that was another lie. I'm betting Huma found out the same time we did.
That means he not only initially lied about the existence of his affairs to the public, he now lies publicly about what his wife new, at a time when he's supposed to be 'fessing up. He'd actually be putting her on public notice, that she'll now have to lie to corroborate his statements when asked. I just have a hard time understanding anything so depraved.
Huma probably knew about this since sending lewd pics back and forth was most likely part of their courtship.
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The German group that competes against Nike and Puma said it was slightly revising downwards its projected full-year sales "to grow at a low- to mid-single-digit rate on a currency-neutral basis".
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Anglo-Australian mining titan Rio Tinto posted its first annual loss in 18 years Thursday, plunging US$2.99 billion into the red on hefty writedowns on its Mozambique coal and aluminium businesses.
The US$14.4 billion in impairments, announced last month, prompted the resignation of chief executive Tom Albanese and saw Rio slump on underlying earnings of US$9.3 billion.
"Our business performed well in 2012, generating strong cash flows and underlying earnings of US$9.3 billion," said Rio chairman Jan du Plessis.
"However, we are deeply disappointed by the US$14.4 billion writedowns that we have taken in 2012, primarily in our aluminium and energy businesses, which led to the group recording a net loss of US$3.0 billion."
The result for the 12 months to December 31 was a 151 percent plunge on last year's US$5.83 billion profit.
Incoming chief Sam Walsh, who is to formally replace Albanese at the helm in July, said the company was targeting cash savings of more than US$5.0 billion by the end of 2014 and reducing capital expenditure to US$13 billion this year.
"My immediate priority is to build more focus, discipline and accountability throughout the organisation," said Walsh, promising "aggressive" cost-cutting.
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Rio said the full-year loss -- its first since becoming a dual listed company in 1995 -- had also been due to a dip in commodity prices which had wiped US$5.3 billion off the bottom line.
Iron ore plunged 24 percent compared with 2011, copper was 10 percent lower and aluminium was down 16 percent.
Rio's unpopular US$38 billion acquisition of Canadian firm Alcan in 2007 cost it dearly, with lagging profits from the metal eating into its bottom line and seeing full-year earnings slump 59 percent in 2012 to US$5.8 billion.
An impairment charge of US$8.9 billion from the aluminium business saw Albanese forgo his bonus last year, and Rio said conditions in the aluminium market had worsened further in 2012 due to high costs and currency swings.
Under his watch, Walsh said Rio would have an "unrelenting focus on pursuing greater value for shareholders," promising to invest only in projects that offer "attractive returns that are well above our cost of capital".
The new CEO offered an upbeat assessment of global prospects, saying Rio saw "the positive momentum in the fourth quarter of last year being sustained into 2013 with Chinese GDP growth returning to above 8 percent".
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Rio said industry-wide cost pressures had also weighed on earnings, particularly the price of energy.
The mining giant offered shareholders a $1.67 dividend -- 15 percent higher than last year -- which du Plessis said reflected confidence in its prospects.
"The quality of our assets combined with our positive long-term outlook gives us confidence in the sustainable cash-generating abilities of our business," he said.
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This study examines the forecasting power of confidence indicators for the Russian economy. ARX models are fitted to the six confidence or composite indicators, which were then compared to a simple benchmark AR-model. The study used the output of the five main branches as the reference series. Empirical evidence suggests that confidence indicators do have forecasting power. The power is strongly influenced by the way which the indicator is constructed from the component series. The HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), the OECD Composite Leading Indicator (CLI) and the OECD Business Confidence Indicator (BCI) were the best performers in terms of both the information criterion and forecasting accuracy.
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I've been skiing at the Blue Mountain for four years or so, and keep coming back having tried most other mountains in the NYC area.
Its greatest strength is night skiing. It's really a day-trip mountain, and for night skiing you don't have to get up at 5 on a weekend morning as you would for all other decent mountains around NYC. All trails are lit, and the quality of lighting couldn't be better. We usually ski on Sunday nights (we work on Saturdays), and it's dirt cheap: $19 for 4-10pm; and crowds are thin to nonexistent. We leave the mountain at 10 and are back home in Queens around midnight.
Snowmaking and grooming is another major strength. Most of the time, the snow is very good compared to other resorts in the East. Naturally, when the day is warm you can expect some ice at night, but usually it's no big deal. I believe their grooming is about as good as Belleayre, and way better than Hunter (which was mostly raw ice whenever I skied there).
The staff are very helpful and friendly. You can check-in your skis for free, quite convenient. The lower lodge, on the face of it, is only average but feels quite cozy.
On the flip side, they have few trails. When you look hard you realize that the Blue basically has two each of double diamond, black, blue, and green trails (plus sundry short trails and passes, and several very good school areas). It's great for beginners to strong-intermediates, but expert skiers will probably quickly get bored of the two double-diamonds, even though they're steep and utilize all of the vertical drop (at 1000', the highest in the Poconos). The park is supposed to be good, but I cannot judge since I don't use it.
On the balance, night skiing, decent vertical drop, good snow, accessibility from NYC, and coziness of the place makes it our favorite local mountain.
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A Guide to the Best Weapons and Armor (Includes "God" Armor)
This guide began after I had played about 30 hours and decided I didn't like light armor and since I had spent a lot of perks into it I decided to begin again. This second time I wanted to focus making items that were awesome and worked in conjunction with one another all the while having a character that could take on any amount of enemies and win. With that in mind I pooled my own knowledge with random tid bits from the internet and began my journey.
NOTE: I no longer own the game so if future updates have made some of this process harder I apologize ahead of time.
IntroductionBefore you begin this journey understand that this is not a quick and easy process (yes I understand that there's a glitch with the Oghma Infinium but that takes all the fun out in my opinion). You will be spending a lot of time grinding between stores for ingredients and components and it does get a bit tedious regardless of how great the game is. The payoff though is worth it in my opinion as you'll be able to create awesomely powerful equipment and fully maximize your fun. After all who doesn't want to be able to laugh at a Giant when he barely scratches you with one of his earthquake club strikes? It should be noted here that the armor rating caps out at 567. Although you can get your armor rating to 3000+, it still only blocks the same amount of damage as the 567 rating (about 80% damage reduction). Keep this in mind before spending perks to increase armor percentage.
Still here? Okay then let's get started. First of all, I suggest doing this with a new character so that you don't have any of the main quest done or any perks chosen. Also, there will be some traveling involved and random dragon attacks will be fatal until you're done with all this. Next, don't spend any perks unless I tell you to. The last thing you want to do is ruin this character by spending a perk on something you won't use later. Last, don't worry about your level going up without you knowing any combat skills. When this is all said and done, your equipment will more than make up for the gap.
Step 1: Set UpWe'll start this process as soon as you emerge from Helgen after the attack. On your way to Riverwood be sure to stop by the standing stones and choose the Thief sign. Next go to Riverwood and sell off everything extra in your inventory. You're not going to be adventuring for a while so none of this stuff is worth keeping. From there advance the main quest until after you're given the quest to go to Whiterun. Before you go there though, you'll need to pick up a little gold first.
Head over toward the wood mill and begin chopping wood. Hod, the owner of the place, will give you 5 gold per piece of firewood you chop. You'll need about 3000 or so gold to get started with all this so get to work. This can get quite boring as you're looking at 100 chopping sequences to get the 3000 gold mentioned above. Stick with it and it'll be done in no time. After finishing with your lumberjacking around head to Whiterun and go inside the city. Once inside the city go to Arcadia's Cauldron to begin step 2....
Step 2: Leveling AlchemyAlchemy is a very quick and easy way to earn money in Skyrim. At my highest level I'm capable of making potions worth over 5000 in gold. Leveling this skill though is a lot harder than Oblivion. To begin this process you'll need to go to Arcadia's Cauldron (the town Alchemist) to start. Once inside speak with Arcadia and begin buying ingredients. At first you're only going to want to buy certain ones to save money and maximize the amount of money spent. I should note that she doesn't sell all the ingredients below until you invest in her shop through the speech perk.
Alchemy is leveled up by creating potions, although eating ingredients does give you some XP. The higher the value of the potion, the more it levels you up when you make it. With that in mind, to start off, only buy the following ingredients:
The above ingredients can be used to make the following high cost potions:
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Bear claws, Blue Butterfly Wing, Blue Mountain Flower, Chickens Egg, Glow Dust, Hanging Moss, Nightshade, Spider Egg, Spriggan Sap
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Chaurus Eggs, Nirnroot, Ice Wraith Teeth, Luna Moth Wing, Vampire Dust
Briar Heart, Canis Root, Imp Stool, Swamp Fungal Pod
Deathbell, Salt Pile, Large Antlers, River Betty
There are some ingredients though you'll want to save to make "super" potions worth lots of money and experience. The ones I used are as follows:
Once Arcadia's restocked, buy ingredients from the list again and then move over to the alchemy station. From here begin making potions using the recipes above. I suggest only using two ingredients per potion too as this will give you more potions to sell back. Once you can't make anymore potions, head back to Arcadia and sell her as many of your potions as you can. After that restock her and continue this process for awhile. Note that as it gets late Arcadia may yell at you to leave. If this happens just go outside and wait until 9:00 AM then go back inside and continue. As your alchemy skill continues to grow spend perks into only the following as soon as you can:
At some point, you'll get to where both Belethor and Arcadia don't have enough gold to buy all you potions in one 48 hour period. At this point it's time to start buying all of Arcadia's ingredients and making any potion you have. Be sure to save the ingredients above only for the specified potions as those are still the best, but the rest can be mixed and matched into whatever yields the highest value. If you need to know recipes for ingredients, GO HERE. Also at this point you'll begin to start making lots of gold. If you're planning on doing heavy armor be sure to buy daedric hearts anytime you see them as you'll need them later on. Now it's time to start getting training from Arcadia.
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ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio sheriff says he doesn't plan to pursue charges against a homeowner who subdued and hogtied an alleged robber.
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Homeowner William Stanley tells the television station his video game systems were taken earlier Thursday, and he later found the man in his home.
Do this in Youngstown and you will be charged .
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Public Domain Hero Week II - Five heroes and villains from the public domain re-imagined.
The woman called "Lady Satan" was first encountered in occupied France during World War 2, when a group of Nazi soldiers reported her appearing and using "demonic powers" to kill most of their garrison as well as the commanding officer. She would continue to appear at random points in the war, connected to bizarre occurences and Axis defeats.
In reality she was a woman who died with her fiance while fleeing the war, when their ship was bombed by the Germans. A group of beings took pity on the girl, and offered to return her to life, and grant her their power if she would serve as their agent in the realm of man. She would be tasked with destroying malicious beings that sought to sow havok and death, and corrupt the hearts of men.
After the war ended, sightings of Lady Satan lessened, but she would continue to fight against the darkness from within the shadows. Undying, unaging, and forever constant on her mission.
- Lady Satan (created by George Tuska) first appeared in 1941's Dynamic Comics #2
I know some of you are groaning that I made her nude. I was gonna do a second version of her in a more public friendly costume, but I had trouble thinking of something other than plain clothes or her classic style dress. Still, this isn't a cop-out, I had always intended one version of my Lady Satan design to be nude. This is inspired by the idea of witches/wiccans/etc performing rituals "skyclad" or in the nude.
Part of my idea for her is that despite her powers and connections being to entities beyond common knowledge, in our society she would be viewed as a tool of the devil. The other part is that perception and truth are far apart. She is blinded by her mask, but it allows her to see the world for what it really is, and to perceive the creatures that hide beyond what normal people can see. At the same time, she is laid bare to the world - freeing herself from the bindings of society and technology, and also a sign of faith to the beings she has made contract to.
Also, while she would have fought many Nazis that were possessed, manipulated by, or just plain working for the evil spirits - I would have it revealed that the more horrific atrocities of the war, including Hitler and his inner circle, were commited solely by men. As such she could not interfere in the war, since she was not fighting Nazis, but these evil creatures. She also might have fought a few Allied troops under the creatures control.
A neat thing about her being essentially immortal is that you could do a ton of stories beyond her origins in WW2.
Wow I've never heard of her...
But she sounds like Europe answer to The Specter and Ghost Rider but more focused on fighting anything supernatual and since the Thule Society cashed their chips in with the third reich the chances of the Nazis encountering her instead of the allies were higher...
But she sounds like Europe answer to The Specter and Ghost Rider but more focused on fighting anything supernatual and since the Thule Society cashed their chips in with the third reich the chances of the Nazis encountering her instead of the allies were higher...
I think this is bad ass. never thought her to be nude either, but this is hot.
While I'm not too keen on her being nude, I can see where you are going with this. I could see her being more pale in skin color to make her more ghost like ala The Spectre in Kingdom Come.
Excellent job on this new entry.
Excellent job on this new entry.
I really enjoy your thinking process on her. The new mask is a great design, and you've really done some intriguing things without drifting too far from the original.


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This was random and is a partial spin-off of the alternate world Rian and Destiny found in the Psychic Control RP up or down the page.
It's Carcer City, year 1999. Umbrella... doesn't exist? What kind of parallel world did you fall into?
Wesker's a florist? Huh...
Seems you're in an alternate world. So, let's go find out what's going on, shall we?
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2.Be completely out of line if you want, but not so out of line you get in trouble.
3.Nothing's the same, at all! Siblings in the other RP aren't related at all in this one, so who knows what's going to happen. O.o
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The last schoolbell rang, and a lot of the students ran outside instantly. Two sisters walked down the stairs, heading toward a mystique beige Chevy Blazer parked nearby with the student permission tag on the rearview mirror, and the older-looking sister - she had blond hair and blue eyes, and pale skin - opened the driver's side door. "Coming, Miya?" Her voice was light, almost laughing. It always was.
Her sister shook her head, some of her red-streaked black hair falling in her face. "I'm have cheering today, remember?"
The other sister blinked. "Forgot about that." She closed the car door and rolled down the window. "Just remember to call home when you get there, okay?"
Miya rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah... Mom and Dad already know where I am; Amane needs to stop worrying so much about me." Miya turned around and walked away. She was wearing a pink tanktop, spaghetti strap, with a black denim miniskirt that went a little past her knees. She wore cute tennis-shoes with blue accents on the sides. Her green eyes were accented by a coppery eyeshadow, and she had a pink and grey messenger bag backpack hanging from her shoulder.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
You're here with me: Just show me this and I'll believe I am beautiful with you!
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- Publisher: Atomic Chimp Games
- Release Date: Dec 19, 2011
- Summary: Kick'n Chick'nz : Medieval Karnival HDThis app is optimized for the iPad2 but will run on iPad1.Welcome, welcome...come in my friends to the bestest Karnival where the fun never ends!Kick'n Chick'nz - Medieval Karnival HD is a hilariously funny new game full of exciting carnival arcade styleKick'n Chick'nz : Medieval Karnival HDThis app is optimized for the iPad2 but will run on iPad1.Welcome, welcome...come in my friends to the bestest Karnival where the fun never ends!Kick'n Chick'nz - Medieval Karnival HD is a hilariously funny new game full of exciting carnival arcade style games, unique gameplay dynamics plus beautiful 3D graphics and animations.Our story begins with a wee tyke named "Margie", aye she's a tuffy...and a spoiled one at that!You see Margie loves dragons, and she won't be happy until she wins the "Fanciest of Dragon Hats" at the Medieval Karnival. You play as Meg, Margie's older sister. Meg has the daunting task of babysitting her bratty little sister. Oh, it's gonna be an interesting day, I'll betcha that!Enter the Karnival and explore the many unique games available (currently 4). All games are included in the price, no In-App purchases necessary to play. Plus 6 more games will be added free through upgrades in early 2012, for a total of 10 uniquely fun games!Kick'n Chick'nz : Medieval Karnival games include:Kick'n Chick'nz:The flagship game that started the whole Medieval Karnival is Kick'n Chick'nz. Ironically the chickens enjoy being kicked as much as you'll enjoy knocking over dozens of challenging targets in this hilariously funny, shootin' gallery style game. Pay close attention to the "wash women" on the sidelines carrying on their special gossiping during the game too. Oh, but beware of the blockers. Once you break their castle windows they begin to chase each other around the gator filled moat blocking your shots!SqweeeBall!:Experience the challenging fun of arcade style bowling with a unique twist. As the game progresses, so does the scoring board which begins to rotate, making the SqweeeBall harder to master, but so much fun to play!Memba' Me?:Care to challenge your memory? Watch as sleeping chickens colorfully awaken when you tap on them in sequence, up to 30 times. But the best part is, as the sequences increase so does the rotation of their nests...yikes! It is sure to keep you on your toes.Stick'n Chick'nz:Remember balloon darts at the carnival? Well how about launching chickens, adorned with spiked medieval helmets, into the dartboard! Pop the colorful balloons to reveal different painted patterns on the backboard and win a variety of fun achievements. Watch too as the propeller beanie wearing chickens ascend from the skies to become active participants onto the launching boards!Players can earn golden eggs as they experience fun and challenging achievements. We even start you out with 3 eggs so you can immediately visit the Treat Wagon loaded with delicious candy, sweets and food items and the Prize Tent where you can use your golden eggs to purchase many different plush doll creatures, including Margie's favorite prize... the Fanciest of Dragon Hats!The hilarious goofy chickens really make for a challenging and fun gaming experience. Complete with original medieval music soundtrack plus additional timeless selections performed by the Moscow International Symphony Orchestra.Hilariously Fun 3D Gaming Experience:Nothing is more comical than curiously goofy chickens hopping in and out of gameplay and comedic situations. Combined this humor with 3D environments, vibrant colors and an original music score and players will find themselves immersed in the Karnival as if they are really there!Features Uniquely Different Gameplay Mechanics:Each game features an entirely different and challenging gameplay mechanic making your playing experience unique and non-redundant. From Swiping to Tapping to Dragging, you'll enjoy the smooth, fast and intuitive response of every game control.Notes: - If you are experiencing technical issues with the App, please visit the Atomic Chimp Games support page at http://www.atomicchimp.com/support- It is highly recommended that you upgrade your device to iOS 5.- Parents: no additional In-App purchases necessary.… Expand
- Developer: Atomic Chimp Games
- Genre(s): Miscellaneous
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Jan 6, 2012I don't see this game being meant for older audiences but this crazy medieval-themed carnival is sure to keep kids busy for hours.


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Posts Tagged 'novel'
Chris Adrian on 'The Great Night'
May 17, 2011 | by Sam MacLaughlin
This new book is a modern retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream. What's your relationship to the play? How does the book stand against it?
My relationship is one of abject admiration. I had it in the back of my head to do a story or a novel that's a retelling of a Shakespeare, and I thought I'd probably like to retell A Midsummer's Night Dream but could never figure out what the actual story would be. What could I possibly come up with that would add anything to something that was already perfect, or at least make the retold story urgent and compelling? So it took a while. I figured it out in part from walking back and forth to work through Buena Vista Park at dawn and dusk, when it's a fairly creepy and magical place, and in part from having a relationship fall apart in just the right way to generate an obsessive need to tell a story about love.
You've called this a less ambitious novel compared to your other work. How so? Is that even something you should be admitting?
In some ways it felt less ambitious, though it didn't turn out to be any less work. The story, at least when it started out, was about love, something of a lark as a topic compared to untimely death or the end of the world. Untimely death and the end of the world crept into the novel anyway, so it became just as ambitious as any of the others.
Francine Prose on 'My New American Life'
May 13, 2011 | by Thessaly La Force
Your protagonist is a twenty-six-year-old Albanian immigrant named Lula who lives in New Jersey. Why Albania?
If you are going to write a novel, I would not suggest that you pick an Albanian unless you are an Albanian. I was writing about immigration, and I wanted to pick someone from the most psycho-isolated Eastern-bloc country. If you go to the Czech Republic now, it is deceptively easy to forget what happened there. But if you go to Albania now, you are not going to forget it— you just can't; then is now.
In a strange way, the novel began ten years ago, when I was staying at this really crappy Hilton in Tampa, Florida, for a weekend. We got there and there was a plate of food outside someone's door in the corridor. It was there when we got there and it was there when we left, and I thought, This is just like Eastern Europe, because no one really cares if you ever come back again. In the late eighties, I went with my family to former Yugoslavia. We showed up at some restaurant, ordered dinner, and the waiter came back two hours later and said, "What? I had to eat my dinner." End-stage capitalism and Eastern-bloc communism have a lot of things in common, as Lula discovers in the course of the book.
So you visited Albania?
I did. I got about forty pages into the novel and I couldn't go any further. It turns out that you can't find out about Albania on YouTube as much as one might like to. I mean, you can learn about people's vacations and weddings and so forth, but not much more. So I went on a trip with the State Department. I was there for about two weeks and I just loved it.
Do you think one has to acquire experience to be a novelist?
Well, I would, because nothing has ever happened to me. I had to go to Albania; I couldn't make it up. It more often happens the other way around. It is not as if you go around saying "I think I will have a love affair, and then I will write about one." It's more "Blah-blah broke up with me and said the most cruel thing," and ten years later you find a way to put it into a book.
An Interview with James Salter
April 11, 2011 | by Kate Petersen
Our Spring Revel is tomorrow, April 12. In anticipation of the event, The Daily is featuring a series of essays celebrating James Salter, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review's Hadada Prize. Here is Salter himself, discussing his new novel and reflecting on his work as a writer and a teacher.
Tell me about your new novel.
I've been working on it for some years. I'd had the idea for a long time, but I was unconsciously waiting for a line from Christopher Hitchens. He wrote somewhere that "No life is complete that has not known poverty, love, and war." That struck me, and I began with that.
I haven't followed it through. Poverty doesn't play much of a part. Betrayal does, and it's a book that has a little more plot than other books of mine. It's about an editor, a book editor, it's the story of his life.
In your Paris Review interview with Edward Hirsch, you describe this image of your friend Robert Phelps going through his books, taking down the ones that didn't measure up and leaving them in the hall. Reading your work, one gets the sense that there is a similar process at work—that everything unnecessary or plain has been taken away.
Yes, that's probably a fault of the writing.
How so?
I think I'd like to write a little less intensely.
David Bezmozgis on 'The Free World'
April 5, 2011 | by Irina Aleksander
Set in Rome in 1978, David Bezmozgis's first novel, The Free World, tells the story of the Krasnansky family, three generations of Latvian Jews, who leave their lives in Riga, and, like many Soviet immigrants bound for the West in the late seventies, must spend six months in the Italian metropolis to secure their visas. Contrary to the book's title, the Krasnanskys find themselves confined to this Roman waiting room, weighed down by the rubble of their communist past, the uncertainty of their future, and their allegiances to one another. Born in Riga in 1973, Bezmozgis immigrated to Canada with his family in 1980 and told the immigrant assimilation story with his tender, restrained collection of short fiction, Natasha and Other Stories (2004). The Free World is a sort of prologue to Natasha, the taxing journey his resilient characters—Jews in Transit, as the émigré newspaper offered in Rome is called—made before settling in the North American suburb. I recently spoke with Bezmozgis at a café not far from the New York Public Library, where he is currently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.
The Krasnanskys' story begins on a train platform in Vienna and concludes before they ever reach the North American free world. Had you always intended to contain the narrative in this strange way station?
Yes, one thing I knew very clearly is that the book begins when they get to Italy and it ends when they're about to leave. That in-between period, that purgatory, is the balancing point between the past, the unknowable future, and the present, which is intriguing and exotic. It's full of dramatic possibility. It was always fascinating to me that these people had given up their lives without really knowing where they were going. I feel like I leave my apartment in Brooklyn to go to the Bronx with more information than my parents had leaving the Soviet Union to go to Canada.
David Vann on 'Caribou Island'
February 10, 2011 | by Caitlin Roper
David Vann's Caribou Island is my favorite novel of the past few years. I read it last summer for possible excerpt in The Paris Review. It's the story, set against the striking landscape of the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, of Irene and Gary, whose thirty-year marriage is collapsing. The story is disturbing; I read it quickly, consumed. I loved the book so much that I was reluctant to see that an excerpt wasn't working. The story was so powerful as a whole—it was irreducible. I recently had the chance to talk to Vann.
You alternate between characters' points of view, and between their stories. How did the shape of the book come about?
None of it was planned. I was writing seven days a week, a few pages every day, and those were where the chapters ended. It really was such a blind process writing the book. I didn't know each day what the characters would do or say; I didn't know when a chapter would end; I didn't know what the next chapter would be or where it was headed. And so with each chapter, I felt like it had come to where it closed, and then each time, luckily, there was some clear sense of where to go next.
How long did the book take to write?
Five and a half months.
I started it fourteen years ago when I finished Legend of a Suicide, and I only got forty-eight pages in, and then I just couldn't figure out how to write a longer arc. I didn't know whose story it was or where it was supposed to focus, so I put it away. That's when I went to sea and became a captain and wrote A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea. I couldn't get Legend of a Suicide published, so I pouted for a while and didn't write for five and a half years. Not writing was partly pouting and partly because I was stuck. I couldn't figure out how to do a novel. And I felt like my brain wouldn't do a longer arc. But in January 2009, I was walking on Skilak Lake, walking out across the frozen lake toward Caribou Island, and I felt like I could see all of it. It seemed really clear that Irene had to be the focus, she had to be the main character right from the start, and that the story had to begin really late, and that their marriage would already be in trouble. The whole thing would feel like the final sequence in that way. I think that was why it was easy to get from chapter to chapter and why they're fairly short and quick, as if they're really all the final sequence.
Karen Russell on Swamplandia!
February 3, 2011 | by Nicole Rudick
Swamplandia! is twenty-nine-year-old Karen Russell's first novel. But the Miami native is already well known in literary circles for her debut story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006). The overlapping themes in St. Lucy's—the pitfalls and wonders of childhood, reality's spectral double, and the changeable mood of the Florida swamp—resurface, with equal deftness and wit, in the novel, which also borrows the Bigtrees, a family of alligator wrestlers. In Swamplandia!, the Bigtrees operate the titular theme park on a small island in Florida's archipelago, and Ava, the youngest daughter, traces the park's and the family's demise—the "Beginning of the End" she calls it—after the death of her mother.
Were there theme parks on islands in the Florida you grew up in, as there are in the novel?
There were definitely a lot of these little Diane Arbus-y–constructed realities everywhere. We had Monkey Jungle, Parrot Jungle, a serpentarium off I-60, zoos, and the Miami seaquarium. It was this seamless, whole cloth thing: There is the seaquarium, now we go to the grocery store. It doesn't really interrupt reality.
We had a little boat when I was really young, and we would go tool around the islands near Pristine Bay, and I loved that. I was reading YA novels where kids are always shucking their parents and living for months on an island, so that was exciting. There's a whole genre of YA novels where some kid is stranded by a plane, or stuck on an island, or lost in the woods, and they use their kid resources to survive through sheer luck. That was always my favorite trajectory. I was an anxious kid, and these books seemed like the best invention ever: here is a door I can carry with me wherever I go; I could just open a book in any situation.


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Because I'm trying to include simply everybody, this will necessarily have to be a very wide (and not very deep) look at all the possible candidates.
The would-be candidates that have snatched the most media ink and public attention typify the clown lunacy that GOP regulars shudder at.
With the capture of Osama bin Laden, President Obama as Campaigner-in-Chief is back. The chessboard is heavily dominated in his favor, but it still is early in the game.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a potential Republican presidential candidate respected for his fiscal prudence, credits his success in government to the business skills he learned as a pharmaceutical executive.
The voucher program signed into Indiana law today will not only expand state control over schools by requiring adherence to a single curriculum, it will also cut into the market for non-accredited schools.
There are four real contestants in the Republican primary. They are as follows, and in no particular order: Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Tim Pawlenty.
Bill Clinton's oft-quoted remark that, when choosing their candidate, "Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line" was a clever way to describe the nominating process for most of the last few decades. But it may be changing in 2012.
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein appeared on MSNBC's 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' on Thursday to discuss potential GOP presidential candidates. Matt...
Prolonged and systematic attacks on any group in an effort to take away their rights, voice, and respect in society are a hallmark of the bullying style in American politics.
Mike Huckabee has not declared he is a candidate for president, but it appears he is beginning to believe he can win the Republican primary.
The Huffington Post's Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman appeared Tuesday night on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" to discuss Wisc...
From what I can tell, Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock isn't just another Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, or John Raese. While he's to the right of Lugar, he would appear to be a competent figure.
Recently, a group of Yale students launched a web-based campaign to encourage Republican Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels to run for President in 201...
With 2010 elections now well behind us, jockeying for the Republican nomination for president begins in earnest.
It is no longer possible to justify a generation of double digit education inflation -- it can be avoided and dampens returns on education to society and individuals.
Where in the world are the young, inspiring new leaders for the next decade that will bring fresh ideas, programs and vision to the American public?


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Trash bin search yields no clues to missing girl
Updated: 02/27/2009 - A search of a trash bin near a missing 5-year-old girl's home turned up no clues.
Updated: 02/27/2009 - A search of a trash bin near a missing 5-year-old girl's home turned up no clues.
Posted: 02/27/2009 - A lot has happened to the Geary family since their German shepherd, Astro, went missing from their Florida home 9 years ago. They moved three times and ended up in Louisville, Ky.
Updated: 02/27/2009 - Walton County Sheriff's Office confirm the identities of the people who were shot and those who were killed in a shooting rampage that happened early Thursday morning in South Walton County.
Updated: 02/27/2009 - Okaloosa County Sheriff Charlie Morris has been arrested on theft-bribery charges and suspended by Governor Charlie Crist.
Posted: 02/26/2009 - The Board of Governors has unanimously approved an agreement designed to protect the future financial stability of Florida's public universities and the state's prepaid tuition program.
Posted: 02/26/2009 - After a four-day manhunt, police shot and killed a man wanted in connection with a litany of horrific crimes.
Posted: 02/26/2009 - Fire officials say two people suffered minor injuries when a Greyhound bus caught fire on a highway as it headed toward Orlando.
Posted: 02/25/2009 - The Panama City Police Department arrested Tina Joyce Gainer and Shelton Deon Watson Jr. for Child Abuse of an 11-year-old boy with Downs Syndrome.
Updated: 02/25/2009 - Closing arguments are expected in the death penalty trial of two men charged in the 2006 drug killings of an entire family along Florida's Turnpike.
Updated: 02/25/2009 - Authorities are investigating a complaint that the peephole for a Hollywood motel room was reversed to look into the room.
Updated: 02/25/2009 - Broward County Sheriff's officials are investigating whether 16 agency employees, including 15 deputies, used steroids.
Updated: 02/25/2009 - The Escambia County Sheriff's Office is grounding its two helicopters, citing budget woes.
Updated: 02/25/2009 - A collision between a car and a tractor-trailer on a north Georgia highway left a teenager dead and two others injured.
Updated: 02/25/2009 - Collier and Miami-Dade counties could make some dirt bike and ATV enthusiasts happy this year.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - Democrats controlling Congress are loosening restrictions on allowing people of Cuban descent to visit their relatives on the island.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - Office Depot says it lost $1.54 billion in the fourth quarter, as hefty charges and sharply lower sales in North America and abroad weighed on the office supply chain.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - Authorities are investigating who took a 120-ton freight train for a weekend joy ride.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - - Federal investigators say a Miami Beach man forced immigrant women to work as prostitutes throughout the U.S.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - Authorities say they arrested 17 people in their late teens and early 20s that caused about $75,000 in damage at a foreclosed Fort Myers home during a party over the weekend.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - A suspected robber in his physical prime thought he saw an easy target outside a Stuart Best Buy.
Posted: 02/24/2009 - People who purchased or raised pricey exotic animals during good economic times are losing their homes or their jobs and can no longer take care of them - and are putting the creatures up for adoption.
Posted: 02/23/2009 - Washington County Sheriff's Office received a call in reference to an attempted sexual battery in south Washington County.
Posted: 02/23/2009 - A rare horse disease has been eradicated in Florida, again. The nation had been considered free of equine piroplasmosis until August when a horse was euthanized in Manatee County...
Updated: 02/23/2009 - Weekly benefits increase by $25
Posted: 02/22/2009 - A pedestrian was struck by a car on Highway 77 Sunday evening.


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It was a day that threw everything at the 1,640 athletes racing in the 10th anniversary event of Challenge Wanaka.
Want to know what's on when and where? Click here for our detailed guide to New Zealand's largest triathlon festival including info for spectators
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I feel a little scared and self conscious to post this video, but hey, after childbirth a woman can face anything, right? This is part two of my childbirth story.
Other videos in this series
- Part 1: Labor
- Part 2: Delivery
- Part 3: Reflections
Here's the story
If only my birth classes had prepared me for this! After part one, I labored for another half hour as the nurse filled the birthing tub. Right as I hit the tub, I got the urge to push. My midwife checked me and said she could feel the baby's head. So I went for it. I was on all fours and pushing my guts out. I had intense 4-push contractions and everyone thought this baby would be out in less than an hour.
But the baby had other plans. He didn't come in an hour of hard pushing, or even two hours. Then my contractions started to slow and weaken. Eventually, I got out of the tub.
I was wiped out and my uterus was beyond exhausted. By 9 p.m. I was delirious with fatigue and dread. I honestly didn't know how I could get the strength to move forward and push the baby out. I asked if I could go to sleep and deliver in the morning. Ha! It didn't help that I hadn't eaten in 12 hours and I couldn't imagine trying.
It was clear that we needed to kick start my contractions again. With regret, I agreed to two drops of pitocin. Sure enough, once the drops were in me I was squatting on a stool beside the bed with strong contractions again.
I pushed like no one's business. After the first couple cycles, Mike and the midwife saw the baby's head crowning! After a couple more push cycles, the midwife caught my baby and pressed him to my naked chest. Praise the Lord!
Click for Part 3: Reflections.
Update: My second childbirth was the complete opposite of this one!
Click here to see how the birth of my daughter Paloma Skye went down


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Community calendar
Published: Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 8:44 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 11:02 a.m.
- Red Hat Chapter "Chapeaux Crimson" will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at Ground Pat'i, 101 Bayou Gardens Blvd. E-mail Cheryl Belanger at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Terrebonne Sportsman League's 55th annual fishing rodeo will be Friday-Sunday. Call 851-4537.
- Terrebonne Historical & Cultural Society is seeking donations for the 2005 Community Day Yard sale, which is scheduled for Sept. 18. Donations can be dropped off from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Saturday at the Southdown Gift shop. Call Ben Nutter at 851-0154.
- Grand Caillou/ Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Community will have a monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Bobtown fire station. Call 594-6593 or 594-3072.
- Evergreen Cajun Center, 4694 W. Main St. in Gray, will hold an indoor flea market from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Call 223-1535 or 226-2776.
- Lafourche Heritage Society will hold its 29th annual seminar on history and genealogy beginning with on-site registration at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Envie Banquet Facility in Thibodaux. Call Clifton Theriot at 448-4629, Doris Mae Ledet at 447-7595 or Elton Oubre at 446-8662.
- Southdown Plantation House/ Terrebonne Museum will hold a reception for artist Paula Lapeyrouse from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Her acrylic paintings will be on exhibit until Sept. 24. Call 851-0154.
- Friends of the NRA 8th annual banquet will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Houma Municipal Auditorium. Call Breck Chaisson at 594-9361 or Chad Walker at 594-5046.
- "Reading and Writing Strategies: Parents Helping Their Children Succeed" will be presented at the dePaul School in the Holy Rosary Community Center, 119 Rosary St., from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. This program is free. Call Suzy Bourg 872-6875 or e-mail email@example.com.
- Capital Area Legal Services will hold a seminar on the Medicare Drug Program at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Terrebonne Council on Aging Bayou Blue Meal site in Theriot. Guest speaker is Margaret Jefferson. Call 868-8646.
- Krewe of Hercules 15th annual Redfish Rodeo will be Aug. 12-14. Call S.P. LaRussa at 872-0444.
- Beauty and the Beast Bull Bash, 221 Moffet Road, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13. Call 594-5656 or 868-5262.
- South LA Community Orchestra will hold a Looney Tunes Children's Concert, performing songs found in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, at 3 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Houma Municipal Auditorium. Adult tickets are $5. Children 12 and under free. Tickets are being sold at SLCA and Fabregas Music. Call 853-2094.
- Book discussion: "Atonement" by Ian McEwan at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library. Olivia Pass will facilitate.
- Terrebonne Parish Library System will present the film "Because of Winn Dixie" at 2 p.m. Aug. 20 in the Terrebonne Parish Main Library for fourth- through sixth-graders.
- The Southern Beauties Calendar Models Pageant is scheduled for 8 p.m. Aug. 20 at the East Houma Bingo Hall. Advance tickets cost $20. Wine and cheese will be served with the VIP ticket package at the cost of $50. Admission at the door is $25. Call Karim Lakhani at 686-9143 or Jane LeBouef at 232-2563.
- Academic Excellence Teachers Awards ceremony, sponsored by the Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence in Public Education, will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center. Call Yolanda Trahan at 868-5881 or visit www. 5krunforexcellence.org.
- Downtown Live After 5 from 5 to 10 p.m. Aug. 26 in the Courthouse Square in downtown Houma. Music by LA. 56. Call Anne Picou at 873-6408.
- Cancer Research Benefit will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 28 at Ward 7 in Chauvin. Admission is $5, and the meal costs $5. Music will be provided by Treater, LA 56, Southern Illusion and Louisiana Kids. Special guests include Cypress Country, Pott Folse, Vin Bruce, Gilligan, Duane Schurb, Jerry Rayne, Waylon Thibodeaux and Don Rich. Call John Crochet Jr. at 851-4148 or 804-1469.
- Terrebonne Parish Library System will present a workshop titled "Write It Down: Recording Family Memories" by Tommy Cobb and Pamela Kopfler at 2 p.m. Aug. 30 at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library.
- "Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh" will be performed at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Aug 30-31 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center. Call (504) 522-5555 or 850-4657.
- The Voice of the Wetlands organization, led by Louisiana roots musician Tab Benoit, will hold its second annual Voice of the Wetlands festival at Southdown Plantation from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 1 and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 2.
- Humane Society of Houma-Terrebonne is accepting 400-word essays for its King and Queen of the annual Dog March to be held in connection with Downtown on the Bayou Oct. 23. Call 873-1095.
- La Leche League's Houma chapter will meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m. at the Terrebonne General OutReach Center at Southland Mall. The group offers a 24-hour support line. Call 580-3978, 688-9690 or 804-5465.
- The Terrebonne Parish Head Start Program is accepting applications for children ages 3 to 5 years old from low-income families from the 2005-06 school session. To apply, bring the child's birth certificate, updated immunization records, Social Security Card, Medicaid Card (if applicable), proof of residency, parent's Social Security Card/driver's license and proof of income (two recent check stubs, tax return, food stamp printout sheet, recent unemployment check stubs, proof of child support). Application hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Application sites are the Terrebonne Parish Department of Housing and Human Services, 809 Barrow St., Houma; Gibson Head Start, 5575 Bayou Black Drive, Gibson; Gray Head Start, 3286 Family Drive, Gray; Holy Rosary 1&2 Head Start, 121 Rosary St., Houma; Houma 1&2 Head Start, TARC Campus Building 5 and 13, 1 McCord Road, Houma; Houma 4&5 Head Start, St. Lucy Daycare, 1220 Aycock St., Houma and Senator Circle 1&2 Head Start, 216 A&B Senator Circle, Houma. Call 580-7273.
- Bayouland YMCA's Splash Summer Day camp, through Friday. Call 873-9622.
- Renaissance Health & Racquet Club will be hosting a summer camp at 106 Southdown West Blvd., Houma. The camp is from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through Friday. Call 872-2582.
- Bayou Black Tarpons swim team is taking applications for members. Call 876-4270.
- Teche Action Board, Inc. announces that the Teche Action Clinic at Dulac will be moving its regularly scheduled staff meeting from the second Thursday to the fourth Thursday of the month, and will now be open the second Thursday of the month. Hours of operation are 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon Friday. Call Rebecca Guidry, site administrator, at 868-3700 ext. 107.
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CANNELTON—Cannelton was unable to hit free throws late in a 46-43 loss to Columbus Christian in the first game of the Bulldog Invitational boys basketball tourney Saturday morning.
The Bulldogs trailed 44-41 with 43 seconds left when Jordan Mattingly scored on a rebound basket.
Mattingly was fouled on the play and went to line with a chance to tie the game, but he committed a lane violation on the shot.
Cannelton immediately committed a foul to send the Crusaders to the foul line for a double bonus. They missed both free throws.
FRENCH LICK—Perry Central hit 48.8 percent from the field to beat Springs Valley 57-41 in PLAC girls basketball Saturday.
Lavina Schwartz led the Commodores with 16 points on 4 of 8 field-goal shooting and 8 of 9 free throws.
She also made five steals and had four assists.
Deidra Dickerson added 10 points. Katie Schwartz hit 4 of 5 from the field and Hilarie Hahus hit 4 of 6.
CAMPBELLSBURG—Cannelton overcame a 46-27 rebounding deficit to beat West Washington 43-41 in girls basketball Saturday.
"Good teams win ugly games and it was pretty ugly," said Cannelton Coach Mike Garrett. "We didn't shoot the ball very well (30.2 percent from the field, 31.6 percent on free throws) and we got outrebounded so bad."
The quicker Bulldogs did force 27 West Washington turnovers.
Taylor Lawalin hit a three-point shot with a minute left to give Cannelton the lead for good.
EVANSVILLE—"We gave up too many turnovers," Tell City Coach John Lyons said of the Marksmen's 54-30 girls basketball loss to Mater Dei Saturday.
Mater Dei pressed at times, "but we turned the ball over in the halfcourt too," said Lyons. "They were quick and they anticipated the pass well."
Freshman center McKenzie Hayes led Tell City with nine points on three field goals and 3 of 7 free-throw shooting.
TELL CITY—Both coaches thought Tell City outhustled Perry Central in beating the Commodores 47-45 in the second round of the PSC Classic boys basketball tourney Wednesday.
"We didn't play with any intensity the first half," said Perry Central Coach Matt Carter. "We got outplayed the whole game.
"I don't know if we ever boxed out the whole game. Our half-court defense was pretty decent, but then we didn't finish it with the rebound."
TELL CITY—Boonville, getting high percentage shots on fast breaks, hit 59.0 percent from the field to beat Perry Central 67-65 in the first round of the PSC Classic boys basketball tourney Tuesday.
Perry Central committed nine turnovers in the first half and Boonville converted five of them into fast-break layups to build a 32-20 lead.
The Pioneers increased their lead to 20 points, 42-22, on a fast-break dunk by center Ryan Helfert midway through the third quarter.
TELL CITY—Corydon took advantage of 13 first-half Tell City turnovers to beat the Marksmen 74-58 in the first round of the PSC Classic boys basketball tourney Tuesday.
Tell City outrebounded Corydon 36-26 overall, including 26-15 in the second half.
And field-goal percentages were nearly even in the first half, with Corydon hitting 53.8 percent and Tell City 52.9 percent.
But Corydon took nine more shots that half thanks to having eight fewer turnovers than the Marksmen. Thus the Panthers were able to build a 36-19 halftime lead.
CANNELTON—Cannelton will host the Bulldog Invitational, a three-team, round-robin, boys basketball tourney, Saturday.
The Bulldogs will face Columbus Christian in the first game at 10 a.m.
That will be followed by Columbus Christian vs. New Harmony at 1:30 p.m. and Cannelton vs. New Harmony at 6:30 p.m.
Should each team finish with a 1-1 record, point differentials will be used to determine the tourney champion.
Many Perry Countians are Indianapolis Colts football fans, and some of them are understandably irate at Colts Coach Jim Caldwell's benching his starters early in the third quarter against the New York Jets Dec. 27.
The Colts, who were 14-0 and had a chance to join the 1972 Miami Dolphins as the only team to go undefeated through the regular-season and playoffs, led only 15-10 early in the third quarter when Caldwell benched all of his key starters, including superstar quarterback Peyton Manning.
TELL CITY—Perry Central center Katie Schwartz and Tell City center McKenzie Hayes have been named to the girls PSC Holiday Tip-off all-tourney team.
Schwartz averaged 6.3 points and a team-high 6.0 rebounds for the Commodores, who were runners-up in the tourney. She hit all nine of her free throws.
Hayes averaged 11.7 points and 12.3 rebounds in the Marksmen's three tourney games.
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