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5 Things That Are Way Easier Than They Look in Movies
The dream will never die.
Fortunately, it turns out there are some fairly idiot-proof tasks that movies pretend are difficult. Story structure demands things like clever arguments, plot twists and wealthy billionaires dancing through shifting fields of laser beams, and it turns out reality is decidedly less crazy about those things.
#5. Art Heists
Where You've Seen It:Ocean's 12, The Thomas Crown Affair, Entrapment
The Myth:
In the world of heist films, art thieves are the Ivy League. The job requires a thief who appreciates culture, has the balls to steal something famous and, most importantly, possesses the skill set necessary to navigate complex fields of laser beams.
The wealthy art thief from Ocean's 12 does gymnastics through the laser beams that protect all works of art.
Not only do they outclass bank robbers -- with their regional American accents and bargain basement ski-wear -- not caring about money seems to be a prerequisite for stealing art. "Bored by how rich I am" is the only discernible motivation of the titular billionaire in The Thomas Crown Affair, who has presumably turned to this diversion after tiring of hunting humans for sport.
More than anything else, the art thief is drawn by the challenge. In Entrapment, another retired Bond finds himself in a love triangle with Catherine Zeta Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones' ass, and the mismatched trio have to spend months preparing to steal a painting even though the movie makes it clear that they both have superpowers (typically used to disappear behind moving trains for some reason).
Catherine Zeta Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones' ass learn to work as a team during laser beam practice.
In Reality:
Art heists are like bank robberies graded on the easiest curve possible. When two men stole Munch's Scream in 2004, the crime was considered shocking because they bothered to bring guns. Earlier this year, French officials marveled at the "extreme level of sophistication" displayed by a thief who stole $100 million of art by breaking a glass window that wasn't alarmed, and remembering to wear a ski mask. We don't expect people who work at museums to be on top of the latest trends in the criminal underworld, but those are all things junkies remember to do when boosting stereo equipment.
The main attraction seems to be the money, but according to experts, thieves typically have to "wait until news of the theft is reported in the newspaper to see the value" of the art they've stolen. Just like a teenage shoplifter, art thieves steal whatever is closest to the door, and hope it's valuable.
That's not the only move they've borrowed from criminal masterminds like Wynona Ryder and elderly Japanese people. The shoplifter's method of pulling stuff off the wall and shoving it inside your jacket seems to be the go-to method for swiping art from museums. As we've covered elsewhere, a French guy named Stephane Breitwieser stole $1.4 billion worth of art from over 170 different museums by sticking paintings in his over-sized coat. And a maintenance worker managed to steal the freaking Mona Lisa by hiding it inside his smock.
The most successful heist in the history of the art world happened in Boston, has never been solved and could have been planned by a 5-year-old. After using police costumes and fake badges to get into the museum, the two thieves had to subdue a grand total of two security guards, both 20-something "musicians," one of whom admitted to showing up for work stoned.
At one point, the thieves accidentally tripped an alarm that they somehow hadn't prepared to pole vault around. Fortunately for them, the alarm only sent a signal to another part of the museum like a glorified baby monitor.
I'd suggest that museums start taking their jobs a little more seriously, but their solution would probably involve charging late fees to any thief who keeps the art for too long, instead of the hidden machine guns the situation clearly calls for.
Looks just like the real Mona Lisa until she shoots you with her eyes.
#4. Police Interrogation
Where You've Seen It:L.A. Confidential, Usual Suspects, Basic Instinct, Law & Order and every other crime procedural on TV
The Myth:
The interrogation room is a chess board where mentally dexterous cops try to punch holes in the carefully constructed alibis of master criminals. The police will often pair physical intimidation with clever mind games like "good cop/bad cop."
Of course they've got their work cut out for them, since most criminals can talk their way out of anything. In Usual Suspects, the most untouchable criminal in the world weaves an elaborate tale just to mess with the cops' heads, and in Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone's character masterfully uses the complex psychology of the interrogation room to show everyone her vagina.
In Reality:
From a suspect's point of view, police interrogations are incredibly simple. If you invoke your right to an attorney, the police have to stop interrogating you. Invoke your right to remain silent and again, you might as well have caught the Golden Snitch, because it's game over. The interrogation room is less like chess than like an episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse ...
"The secret word is ..."
What's even stranger is that, when a suspect doesn't know his rights, the interrogation process often looks more like a therapy session than what we see in the movies. As this videotaped murder confession demonstrates, the interrogating officers don't try to bully the confession out of the suspect so much as give him a safe place where he can freely express his feelings (of guilt).
The officers get their confession using the old, "good cop/shoulder rub cop" gambit.
That's The Reid Technique, which uses emotional bonding, repetition and empathy to convince the suspect that everyone in the room totally gets that he had his reasons for shooting that dude in the face. Hey, we're not here to judge.
While the suspect is waiting for the bad cop to show up, he starts trusting the guy who keeps slapping him on the ass and telling him good hustle (I'm assuming). The longer it goes on, the more likely to suspect is to come around to the cops version of things, and the cops can keep it going as long as they want.
This is why the justice system decided to give suspects the interrogation room equivalent of Mike Tyson's uppercut. Research indicates that interrogations that go the distance yield confessions in up to 76 percent of all cases. While that might not sound all that impressive, that includes people who aren't even guilty. For instance, the guy the cops massaged and emotionally supported into signing a detailed murder confession in the video was later proven innocent.
From the justice system's perspective, that is the main problem with police interrogations: it's so easy to get a criminal to confess, you can't tell if they really did it or not, and the only way to even the playing fields is to make the whole thing turn on a few magic words.
#3. Dating
Where You've Seen It:How to Lose a Guy in 60 Seconds and every other Chick Flick, Romantic Comedies like Old School and Wedding Crashers, Teen Movies, 80s Movies, The Part in Rambo II where he falls in love with a Vietnamese lady while blowing up her country, Any film that involves a romantic relationship
The Myth:
If you've ever seen a romantic comedy, you know that when two people first meet and fall in love, the world immediately begins conspiring to make them hate each other. Dating is the movie equivalent of the unfair obstacle course at the end of American Gladiators, except instead of steroid-fueled monsters with names like Fuel and Steroid, it's your jealous ex and sleazy best friend. And instead of having human souls, they have flame tornadoes that devour everything good in their path for no apparent reason.
"Look, the only reason you're here is because I bet Blane he couldn't give you AIDS at prom."
When people accuse movie romances of being unrealistic, they're usually talking about the happy ending where the male and female star survive the craziness, and make it across the finish line to marriage or starry-eyed monogamy. The 90 minutes of conflict and misunderstandings leading up to the happy ending seem to suggest that you'll need to be good looking, quick witted and extremely lucky just to marry someone who doesn't hate you.
In Reality:
Don't get me wrong. Every relationship presents its own unique challenges. But dating just happens to be the time that you're not going to notice any of them. The part of relationships that movies tend to fill with catastrophe is the part that's more likely to leave you wondering where the last week went, and how you two ended up moving to Australia together. That's because people who are in love with one another are swimming in the same brain chemicals that fuel cocaine addiction, and dating is the portion of the relationship right after the addict first tries the drug, and before they've experienced any of the negative side effects.
Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with.
Romantic comedies and love stories have to invent obstacles like assignments from man-hating magazine editors, and bets with sleazy best friends, and walking in on the person you love at the moment and from the precise angle that it looks like they're cheating on you with a domestic animal because they have an impossible job. They're telling an a twisty, turny underdog tale about good relationships, and as Chris Rock put it best, "Good relationships are boring."
The problem is that good relationships are also almost always an inverted spectrum of the rocky courtship, happy marriage process we see in movies. In fact, any list of reasons why people get divorced suggests that dating is too easy. The problem is not that good couples get screwed over by circumstances. Love, like a cocaine addict, will find a way. The real problem is that couples pass through the dating process, arrive at the part where they're supposed to live happily ever after and find themselves blindsided by things like differences over money or the fact that one doesn't want kids and the other is a Mormon.
She goes to bed early, and he turns out to be a cartoon cat she's hallucinating because of a pill addiction.
And it's not just the high of new love that movies don't account for. The real world rarely gives you a clear cut reason to break up with someone. At some point, you will have to decide whether to stay with someone who you really like, but don't think you love. There will be no "inciting incident" that serves as a convenient breaking point. You won't cheat on each other or fight. You'll enjoy spending time with each other because dating is easy. The hard part is delivering the, "it's not you, it's me" speech knowing that the person who says that in movies is always a date rapist.


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Long workdays lead to safety meltdowns
Long workdays lead to safety meltdowns
This year has been plagued with countless accidents that have severely injured dairy producers, or worst, taken their lives. Rollovers, auto accidents, exposure to toxic silo gas, hay bale crushing incidents, and electrocutions are just five of the fatalities that we know about since April that claimed the lives of dairymen we know.
Then there are the accidents that almost caused series injury:
The hydraulic hose that broke and sent the bucket loader down on top of a person helping pull fence posts.
A short time later, we saw a full load of corn silage being pulled by a pickup truck. The driver crossed a ridge too fast and snapped both front tires off the wagon's hub and spindle. Luckily, the wagon didn't tip, but the amount of repair needed on the wagon was tremendous.
Then there was the wagon, last Thursday, that the tires weren't properly blocked when changing the flat tire on the road. It began rolling, popped off the jack, and did a 180-degree roll landing on the roof as shown in the photo. Fortunately, this accident caused no fatalities.
During harvest season, we are often racing against the clock and weather to get crops off. Low milk prices have caused many of us to do more with less. Unfortunately, workloads increase and as long days build upon one another, our senses get dulled, and farm safety can get compromised. To counter this situation, take a few minutes at the beginning of the workweek to review safety with your farm team. Pick a new topic each week; good safety measures not only save lives, but, in most cases, they reduce downtime due to less machinery repair.

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West Virginia Wesleyan's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program will host a Visiting Writers Series during the program's Summer Residency.
These events are free and open to the public. The writers will be reading from their original work, and copies of their books will be available for sale.
The following is a schedule of the readings set on Wesleyan's campus:
July 1 - Alex Taylor, 7 p.m., Upshur Reading Room in Annie Merner Pfieffer Library
Author of the story collection "The Name of the Nearest River," Taylor lives in Rosine, Ky. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, The Oxford American, American Short Fiction and elsewhere.
July 2 - Mary Ann Samyn, 3 p.m., Upshur Reading Room in Annie Merner Pfieffer Library
The author of five collections of poetry, most recently "My Life in Heaven," Samyn is the winner of the 2012 FIELD Prize. She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.
July 3 - Bob Mehr, 7 p.m., Upshur Reading Room in Annie Merner Pfieffer Library
Mehr is the music critic for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. A contributor to SPIN, MOJO magazine in the United Kingdom and German Rolling Stone, he's also written liner notes for artists including Warren Zevon, Fred Neil and the Dixie Chicks. His biography of legendary rock band The Replacements will be published by Da Capo in 2013.
July 5 - Maggie Anderson, 7 p.m., Loar Auditorium
The author of four books of poetry, including "Windfall: New and Selected Poems," "A Space Filled with Moving" and "Cold Comfort," Anderson has been awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. The founding director of the Wick Poetry Center and of the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press, Anderson is professor emerita of English at Kent State University.
July 6 - Jayne Anne Phillips, 7 p.m., Loar Auditorium
Born and raised in West Virginia, Phillips is the author of two widely anthologized story collections, "Black Tickets" and "Fast Lanes," and five novels, "Machine Dreams," "Shelter," "Motherkind," "Lark" and "Termite," as well as "Quiet Dell," forthcoming from Scribner in October. A National Book Award & National Book Critic Circle Award finalist, she is distinguished professor of English and director of the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark, the state university of New Jersey. The reading will be followed by a literary conversation with Jayne Anne Phillips and Maggie Anderson.
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April Fools' Day pranks the open source way
April Fools' Day is not a national holiday, so no, you don't get to stay at home and play with your Raspberry Pi or read Hacker News all day. But, you do get to the opportunity to join a community of pranksters around the globe who will invariably succeed in some knee-slapping, good humor.
According to Wikipedia, the earliest recorded association to jokes played on others on April 1 can be found in The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer (which is now in the Public Domain)—written in 1392. How do you think pranks and jokes have been passed down through the ages or years and changed over time?
Is there a prank your family or friends play every year? Is there a common one in your country?
What April Fools' Day pranks have you succeeded in? Which have you never tried?
Part of the open source philosophy is sharing and modification as well as community and participating. So, we wonder, in what ways does coming together as a community and sharing in humor contribute to a more open world?
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I thought about the questions all day, but I nor my family, have a common April Fools day joke. Neither does the country I live.
With regards to community and participation, and how this could contribute to a more open world:
Using humor in your community, and in this case April Fools day, can help strengthen your community. Ease up on seriousness, share some fun, share a common ground. This is ground for strengthening the bond between community members which in it's turn reflects not only in the community itself but also outwards. Into the world, making it a more open world.
So personally, I'd say grab the opportunity of April Fools day within your open source community/project. Share a joke, and strengthen your community and the open source way.
It's pity that in my country, Finland, April Fools day is actually a national holiday this year because it coincides with the second Easter day. No workplace pranks this year.
I run the print system for a large site (~1000 printers). A few years ago, I made it so that after every print job on that April 1st, the display on the HP printers would show a humorous and (to users) sometimes confusing text, selected randomly from a pool of short quotes and Internet memes and so on.
Examples included "All your base are belong to us", "Om nom nom nom!", "MORE COWBELL!", "I printed you a document but I eated it", etc...
This can be done by pushing the following PJL command to the printer's port 9100 :
"\033%-12345X\@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = \"TEXT HERE\"\r\n\033%-12345X\r\n"
(Use a litteral '\n' to embed a newline in the string.)
I got feedback from a few concerned users ("virus?!"), but it did no real harm, and most people had a laugh.
This year, April 1st was a public holiday, so I didn't bother... :-(


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5 Weird Personality Changes That Happen When You Live Alone
I recently started doing something I'd never done before: live alone. I grew up with my parents and two older brothers. When I went away to school, I had a roommate in the dorms, and then later, I lived with friends in off-campus housing. I lived in a dorm again during grad school, and my girlfriend practically lived in my room. Then that girlfriend became my wife, and we got married after graduation. Then we had three kids. That's a lot of not living alone.
Divorce has changed that, though, and I recently moved into a basement apartment 5 miles away from my kids. Perhaps the change wouldn't have been such a big deal if I'd continued my normal experience of a busy workday, mostly just crashing at home. But instead, I brilliantly timed a week off from work so I could finish the second book in the Notes from the Internet Apocalypse trilogy, which meant I got to spend hours and hours by myself in a small quiet space.
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OK, my apartment is a little nicer than that.
The good news is that I learned some stuff. Stuff I didn't expect to learn. So for any of you venturing out of your parents' house or a failed relationship or what have you, here are five things no one tells you about living alone.
#5. You Don't Know How to Shop
The first thing I had to do was set up the apartment. I wasn't going to be one of those single guys living off McDonald's, pizza, and TV dinners. I was going to eat healthfully and inexpensively. So the first thing I did was go to BJ's, which is not an oral sex palace for newly divorced men, but a discount grocery chain akin to Costco or Sam's Club.
Except it's funnier to say than any other store except Dick's Sporting Goods.
But here's the thing: Because I was used to shopping for a family, I forgot that you only save money at BJ's by buying in bulk. So yeah, it was a good price on two giant peanut butters, but why would I need two giant peanut butters or 12 soaps or 500 feet of aluminum foil? So I bought the staples that wouldn't go bad even in bulk, like pasta and chicken I could freeze. (Yes, freezing plus the fact that I eat an insane amount of chicken.) Then I ended up bringing over like three packs of macaroni and cheese, three boxes of pasta, four soaps, one giant bag of shredded cheese (that started as a two pack), and one tray of about 36 eggs to my old house, because overbuying is inevitable in a store like that and makes no sense when you're shopping for one.
Incidentally, I then overshot the other way and continued my shopping at the dollar store while avoiding purchases that could kill me, like, y'know, dollar store meat. Here are some of the wonderful popular name brands you might recognize from my shopping experience.
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#4. You Will Talk to Yourself
Now, I knew I talked to myself. That doesn't make me crazy. I just enjoy the sexy and witty comments that come from my own mouth, and I see no reason to deprive myself of such joy. It's the same reason I read my own columns and listen to my old college band's demo tapes! Extreme self-indulgent narcissism shouldn't just be limited to selfies!
Speaking of selfies, if you buy this book jacket photo of me, the novel comes free!
But in truth, I used to mostly talk to myself in the shower almost unconsciously, or I'd exclaim something if I touched a hot stove. That sort of thing. I never actually straight-up talked to myself.
Until I lived alone. Then, wow, I suddenly had a commentary on everything. In my mind there was still an audience. Someone in the room or the next room. Like "Yeah, I think that looks nice there" or "Hmm, I think I'll open a window." I caught myself doing it multiple times, and I'm positive that when the words left my mouth I had no intention of talking to myself. They felt like things you'd say to other people, or at least in the presence of other people. But they bounced off the wall and came back to me, and even though I miraculously agreed with the eloquence of the expressed sentiment each time, I had to admit it was weird to notice how much self-speak was going on. At least I'm wonderfully supportive of me.
"Yes, Gladstone, that combination bookshelf/liquor cabinet was a great idea!"
#3. You Will Think Too Much
There's a lot more quiet time when you live alone, and with that quiet time comes thoughts. Sure, you might spend this time in quiet reflection and realize things about yourself and society that you've never before pondered.
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"Whoa, what if all the jokes that are missing from Felix Clay's columns are like all living together in a bungalow in Spain?"
But more likely they will be busybody, unhelpful stupid thoughts. Thoughts like "Is that a lump?" "What is that smell?" "How loud can I be here before my neighbors hear?" and "Seriously, what is that smell? Carbon monoxide? Will it kill me while I sleep? That's stupid. Carbon monoxide is odorless. But wait, are there things that smell that can kill you in your sleep?"
Or better yet, you can wonder what would happen if you slipped in the shower or cut yourself. How long would it take for your body to be discovered before anyone knew you were dead?
These are the thoughts that go away by increased contact. It doesn't have to be running after children or laughing with a spouse. It could be yelling at your roommate to do the dishes or fantasizing about murdering your roommate for not doing the dishes. It's just that when you throw more people into the mix, it creates a buzz, a hum, and that noise often helps to drown out the stupid, stupid, stupid voice that is you.


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LISBON — Beaver Local teachers are prepared to go on strike the first day of the 2013-14 school year unless a new contract is reached....
Oh what a beautiful day it would be once again, if we could get rid of the lousy teachers and pay good money to the quality trained deserving professional teachers! I remember those days, such sweet memories...then the union came in and killed it with their motto..."group together, stand as a whole and by God, even the pathetic teachers that don't deserve to be held in the same candle with you will get what you deserve and all you have to do is pay us to get it for you...wink wink!!!
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Green Wave forward Brandon Wilkerson has received some high praise.
Wilkerson is one of only three players from the Lowcountry to be named to the South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association Class AAAA Boys' All-state team. Goose Creek's Dantez Bennamon and Stratford's Demetre Rivers are the other Lowcountry players who made the cut.
In all, only 15 athletes were named to the team. Others receiving the honor are Jameel Taylor (TL Hanna), Maurice Daniels (Dorman), Megik Henderson (Wade Hampton), Anthony Johnson (South Pointe), Jaylen Reid (Rock Hill), Justin McKie (Irmo), Detrek browning (Irmo), Perry Dozier Jr. (Spring Valley), Nygel Gates (Lexington), Shawn Moore (Aiken), Reggie Bonner (Conway) and Auntrell Holloway (Sumter).
Wilkerson has also been selected to play in the North-South All-star game that features some of the state's best seniors from across all four classifications and has been named the Region 8-AAAA Player of the Year.
Summerville coach Greg Elliott says Wilkerson deserves the praise and then some.
"Brandon is a kid who just got better each year and he was very humble about any personal recognition," Elliott said. "He rebounded the ball well and either started most of our fastbreaks or found someone to finish them. He is a great kid, an excellent student and a great ambassador for our team."
Wilkerson started 77 games in his three seasons with the Green Wave varsity team. He scored 951 points and helped Summerville earn three consecutive Region 8-AAAA Championshps. This year marks the third time he has received all-region honors.
2013 All-region list
Wilkerson is one of four Summerville players named to this year's 8-AAAA Boys All-region team. Juniors John Jenkins and Christian Kalacanic and senior Chris McKinnon also made the cut.
Fort Dorchester and Ashley Ridge both had two players make the team. Eric Hayward and Baptiste Staggers represent the Patriots on the list while Romelo Doctor and Fred Weeks represent the Swamp Foxes.
Others receiving all-region honors include Bluffton's C.J. Frazier, B.J. Hill and Demetrius Smalls; Beaufort's Kendrick Colvin and Thomas Parker; and Colleton County's Rashee Hodges.
Elliott was named the Region Coach of the Year. After leaving Hilton Head High School to take the Summerville job, he led the Green Wave boys to a region championship in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In each of those years, the region Player of the Year came from Summerville. Elliott has also now coached three different Summerville athletes who were selected for the North-South game: Wilkerson, J.D. Tucker and Mario Pendarvis.
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We can agree on this: Laraque was smart enough to get out of this CHLPA thing.
I've never had that opinion of him. Having read his autobiography, my opinion of him was validated in his book: he's an very intelligent person who, when seeing an important cause that he believes in, will support it and do whatever it takes to help make it a success. The fact that he was asked to be "the big name" in this was great; the fact that he had to put up some of his own money is troubling.
Perhaps you're thinking of Donald Brashear.
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S. Klaus Schmidt prepared for the onslaught Wednesday. In his blue Vail Resorts uniform and with the clock ticking down to 9 a.m., he manned the gate at the gondola that would open to release the flood of skiers and snowboarders anxious to hit the slopes first.
"OK, just don't run me over. I'm old," Schmidt joked as he dropped the rope.
Jake Parker and Erin Edwards led the charge. The couple arrived at the base of the gondola at Heavenly Village at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday morning to ensure a ride on the first chair of the season.
"You got to start the season off right," Edwards said.
For the second year in a row, Edwards and Parker set up camp - this year it included a fluffy comforter and stripped beach umbrella - feet from the gondola to celebrate the opening of the mountain. The next group of intrepid snow sports enthusiasts joined the pair at 6:30 a.m.
Brett McLucas and Michael Torres didn't exhibit quite the same passion to hit the slopes early. They arrived at the gondola around 8:30 a.m., and cheerfully admitted they thought lifts opened at 8 a.m.
Both said they were excited to start making turns though.
"They have a good base, and they've got some snow up there in the trees," Heavenly lift operator McLucas said.
That base averages around 18 to 24 inches, according to Heavenly's General Manager Pete Sonntag. He said that the resort plans to open Orion's run and Dipper Express by either Friday or Saturday.
"It's going fantastic. The energy is clearly here with both our employees and our guests. We've put last year behind us. We're feeling good," Sonntag said.
Opening more terrain depends on how much powder falls during the upcoming days. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a heavy snow and rain mixture both Saturday and Sunday in South Lake Tahoe, with actual accumulation hovering around 3 inches.
In warm, spring-like conditions, skiers and boarders made short, fast loops on Upper California Trail. The blue run was in good shape on Wednesday morning with no bare spots and very little ice. Samuel Rigling IV said he was more than happy to overlook a few slick patches on opening day, and his boarding buddy Jake Smith agreed.
"It's a bit icy, but it's a good step up from last year. It's good for opening day," Smith said.
Although the Ante Up terrain park beneath Tamarak Express is still closed, Heavenly staff built up a series of features that included medium-size jumps and rails along the left side of California Trail.
The Heavenly Angels will kick of the season's apres-ski parties Friday at Tamarak Lodge, which is accessed from the top of the gondola. Festivities start at 3:30 p.m., according to a Vail Resorts press release.
Kirkwood opened on Friday morning, almost a week earlier than the usual Thanksgiving opening.
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A Buffalo man involved in setting a Jack Russell terrier on fire last fall received a six-month jail sentence Friday. But given the time Diondre Brown already served during his prosecution, he was expected to be released from custody soon after his court appearance.
Erie County Judge Kenneth F. Case also sentenced Brown, 18, to five years' probation and forbade him from owning or harboring any animals for five years.
Brown spoke only a few words in court but apologized for what happened Oct. 29 in a yard off Herman Street.
The judge called the case "extremely disturbing and appalling" but found Brown to be remorseful.
"I hope that this has served as a wake-up call for you," Case told Brown.
Authorities arrested Brown and Adell Ziegler, 19, – who is Brown's uncle – last fall on felony animal cruelty charges for dousing the terrier with lighter fluid and setting it on fire.
The dog, since named Phoenix, suffered burns on 50 percent of its body but has been recovering.
Before his sentencing, Andrew C. LoTempio, Brown's defense lawyer, told the judge that Brown had been taking care of the dog and that it was Ziegler who set it on fire – accounts supported by neighbors.
During the incident, Brown was crying and telling Ziegler to stop, and then he ran away when he heard the police were called, LoTempio said.
Assistant District Attorney Kristin St. Mary acknowledged Brown's cooperation in the case.
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Brown had pleaded guilty to a felony animal cruelty charge.
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Norma Jean Jones, 79, a resident of Route 4, Philippi, passed away Sunday, June 30, 2013, in United Hospital Center.
She was born Aug. 6, 1933, in Barbour County, a daughter of the late Noel A. and Georgie Andrick Poling.
Norma was united in marriage May 2, 1951 to Ralph Lee Jones, who preceded her in death March 15, 2010.
Surviving are one daughter, Valli Davis and husband, Rocky, of Philippi; two sons, Tom Jones and wife, Mary, of Mill Creek and Richard Jones and wife, Jackie, of Belington; six sisters and two brothers, Dorothy Daugherty and husband, Hugh, of Philippi, Mary Burner and husband, Olen "Bud," of Marietta, Ohio, Noel Poling and wife, Linda, of Salamanca, N.Y., Carol Schreckengost and husband, Bill, of Salamanca, N.Y., Virgil Poling of Salamanca, N.Y., Donna Stevens and husband, Raymond, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., Sharon Johnson and husband, Carl Davis, of Tennessee, and Nancy Pierce and husband, Larry, of Salamanca, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Norma was preceded in death by two sisters, Theressa Weidlich and Ruth Carter; and a sister-in-law, Sue Poling.
She worked as a nurse's aide at Broaddus Hospital, was the owner and operator for the Lady Slipper and also was a homemaker. Norma enjoyed quilting, Bible study and, most of all, her family. She was a member of Union Church of Christ.
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The marks seems a bit generous for V/M, especially since they were allowed a second attempt at the lift. Looking at the protocols, I think D/W would have eeked out a victory either way based on TES.
The marks seems a bit generous for V/M, especially since they were allowed a second attempt at the lift. Looking at the protocols, I think D/W would have eeked out a victory either way based on TES.
From what I could tell, Scott didn't lift Tessa off of the ice before they stopped, so the lift hadn't actually begun yet. As far as I know, you need to begin the entry for it to count as an attempted element. When they stopped they were simply skating on two feet, so I think the re-start was fair.
D/W skated lights out, and deserved the win. I think V/M have a better program overall, but they didn't deserve the win with the interruption, and they didn't get it. It all seems fair to me. I'm just glad Tessa seemed to be OK at the end. Wouldn't want anyone hurt before worlds.
What I'm still scratching my head about is Gilles/Poirier. Where did the 97 point come from??
Yes, V/M are slightly overscored, but they would've won silver medal anyway even if the judges hadn't been "generous".
D/W never had a same situation, so we don't know if judges are just being generous to V/M or if that lift actually counts.
I'm not sure about other dancers. I never saw a similar situation before-dancers having to stop right before their lift begins.
But the officials allowing them to restart (and count the lift) sets a dangerous precedent IF the reason is that Tessa was so out of breath she could not continue. (and I don't doubt that reason, it was clear how physically affected she was)...
What's the line between this and a skater knowingly packing four quads in a minute leaving him completely legitimately out of breath and physically unable to continue, then stopping and restarting after catching his breath for two minutes knowing its a valid reason? Skaters arrange jumps throughout the program and have obvious choreographic "resting" spots so they have the endurance for the 4-4.5 minute program. I think someone (maybe Plushenko?) said that a quad-quad combo in competition was possible if a program only lasted a minute, or something like that.
ISU rules regarding a restart (emphases added):
3. If a Competitor gets injured during the performance or another adverse condition related to him or his equipment (such as health problems or unexpected damage to his/their clothing or equipment) impedes his/their skating, the Competitor/s must stop skating. If he/they dont stop, they will be ordered to do so by an acoustic signal of the Referee. The Competitor/s shall continue from the point of interruption immediately, if the adverse condition can be remedied without delay. If this is not possible, the Referee will allow an up to three (3) minutes period for the Competitor/s to resume skating from the point of interruption. This time period commences immediately after the Competitor/s stops skating or is ordered to do so by the Referee, whichever is earlier.
If the Competitor/s does not resume skating his/their program within the three minutes period, he/she shall be considered withdrawn.
The point from where the Competitor/s has to continue the program shall be decided and communicated to the Judges and the Technical Panel by the Referee.
6. With respect to adverse conditions related to a Competitor or his equipment, only one restart per program is allowed. In case of a second stop of the performance due to an adverse condition related to the Competitor/s or his/their equipment, the Competitor/s concerned shall be considered withdrawn.
7. If Competitor/s do not complete the program, no marks are awarded and the Competitor/s is/are withdrawn.
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Complete set of all three Red Man Tobacco baseball advertising posters from the early 1950s featuring Ralph Kiner, Enos Slaughter, and Johnny Mize. The Kiner and Slaughter posters have each been signed in blue ink ("8/9"). Full color and perfect for framing. Sets of these posters have virtually disappeared from the marketplace since their discovery in a significant find in the early 1990s. Even when they were first discovered and readily available years ago, few realized that there were not similar quantities of each poster found. Many hundreds of Kiners were discovered, but far fewer posters of Mize, and even fewer of Slaughter, making complete sets of all three far rarer today than some collectors realize. We have been told that reproductions of these posters exist. These originals were purchased directly from the find immediately upon its discovery. Each measures 11 x 15.5 inches. All in Nr/Mt-Mt condition. Total 3 posters. LOAs from James Spence/JSA and Steve Grad, Mike Gutierrez & Zach Rullo/PSA DNA. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $1,276.00
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Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love&150or to face questions about his sexuality. Most of all, he isn't prepared to hear what Geertrui, the woman who nursed his grandfather during the war, has to say about their relationship. Geertrui was always known as Jacob's grandfather's kind and generous nurse. But it seems that in the midst of terrible danger, Geertrui and Jacob's grandfather's time together blossomed into something more than a girl caring for a wounded soldier. And like Jacob, Geertrui was not prepared. Geertrui and Jacob live worlds apart, but their voices blend together to tell one story&150a story that transcends time and place and war. By turns moving, vulnerable, and thrilling, this extraordinary novel takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery.
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Just 10 days ago - during his radio show on Thursday, Sept. 19 - Bill O'Brien was addressing his team's scholarship reduction to 15 per year, and he allowed himself a chance to dream.
"Those are the rules with which we play under," he said that night. "I believe if we had 25 scholarships to give, we'd be unbelievable, and we'll get back to that. It just won't be for a few years."
Maybe O'Brien was teasing his audience with some wishful thinking.
Or maybe he knew that since former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, a nationally respected heavyweight appointed by Penn State as its athletics integrity monitor, was close to getting some of the sanctions reduced.
Or maybe he was just pleasantly surprised, like the rest of us.
Either way, the NCAA's announcement on Tuesday morning that it will gradually restore Penn State's scholarship total by five next year (to 75) and to a full complement of 85 by 2016 is the best off-the-field news the Nittany Nation has received since O'Brien was introduced in January of 2012.
O'Brien has already proven he can coach effectively with a smaller roster, but there's no question that having to operate with 65 scholarships from 2014 through 2018 would create a steady erosion that even Vince Lombardi could not handle.
This welcome news shows the NCAA, universally maligned for its heavy-handed penalties, is keeping an open mind and responding to the diligent work Penn State has done in addressing the recommendations of the Freeh Report.
Further, the NCAA's sudden flexibility helps protect the health of the current Nittany Lions. When starters have to play special teams just to help keep the game competitive, they face added physical risks.
So it's nice to see the NCAA is acting in the best interest of the student-athlete. Isn't that a novel approach?
Since PSU President Rodney Erickson and athletic director Dave Joyner have been bashed repeatedly, they deserve some credit - along with Mitchell, certainly - for swiftly responding to the NCAA's challenge.
Maybe this unexpected development will help keep O'Brien around longer. It's one less fight of the many he's had to encounter.
It accelerates the leveling of the playing field and will allow O'Brien and his staff needed flexibility in recruiting.
O'Brien said Tuesday the previous limitations precluded taking more than one player per position in each recruiting class.
When O'Brien got here, there were 17 offensive linemen on scholarship. "Unheard of," he said at the time.
The reason was the former staff either kept making evaluation mistakes at the position or couldn't develop it - or both - so it kept bringing in new pieces. That happens, and when you have 85 available grants, you can afford an occasional misfire.
Asked whether the NCAA would consider lifting or shortening the bowl ban or restoring the 112 wins it vacated - which was a total overreach in penalizing so many players who had nothing to do with the Sandusky scandal - Mitchell said, "It's premature to speculate."
Let's hope Tuesday is just the first step, but regardless, it's good news.
A significant wrong is being righted - and it will benefit a current Penn State football program that has unfairly paid a price for crimes it didn't commit.


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Friday, July 4, 2014
A 19-year-old North Charleston man is dead from a gunshot wound, and Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury has ruled the death a homicide.
According to Salisbury, on July 4 at 4:28 a.m. the Hanahan 911 dispatcher received a call that a car had run into a house at the corner of Recess Road and Old Point Road.
When police arrived they found Terrence Kendall McNeil, 19, of North Charleston, in the drivers seat of the sedan. He had been shot and was pronounced dead on the scene by Deputy Coroner Kristin Mazzell.
An autopsy was conducted and his death has been ruled a homicide; the cause of death is gunshot wounds to the head. The investigation is ongoing by the Berkeley County Coroners Office and the Hanahan Police Department, Salisbury confirmed.
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Regarding Henry
Recently I was reminded of the movie Regarding Henry starring Harrison Ford. Most likely this resurrection in my thought train was inspired by a stream of bad lawyer jokes. Regarding Henry is not a joke; it is however about a bad lawyer. Henry Turner is the very picture of the lawyer you don't want on the other side of your trial. All he cares about is winning the case. He doesn't care about who he hurts or what he thinks of as a worthless sense of ethics as long as the outcome is what he desires. He is very good at his job. Though he doesn't realize it his consuming drive to win is costing him his wife and daughter, both are at the point where they would prefer not to have him around. Life however, is about to change drastically when he walks into the middle of a convenience store robbery and is shot in the head. He survives... physically at least. When he awakes he has no memory of who he was or who the people around him are. He has no choice to but to start over, learning once again how to do many of the things we take for granted. Surprisingly his wife, daughter and the law firm stand by him as he slowly relearns who he is and who he was.
With this short description you can see the direction this movie is going to take. It is the method of the journey that makes this film interesting. Recently the method for this type of "feel good" film has been brought about through some kind of magic or heavenly intervention. What I liked best about Regarding Henry is that it felt real. His wife Sarah [Annette Bening] struggles realistically with herself between leaving the man she married because he had become a monster, and staying because she is needed by him. I quite liked the idea that there was no deus ex machina to magically transform Henry's life to let him see it for what it was, nor was it there to restore him to full function either. Restoration is and will be a long arduous process, but it will also be filled with the wonder and disappointment of discovery.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has awarded nearly $4 million to support three energy-efficiency projects in the Buffalo Niagara region, including two at Erie County Medical Center and one at the University at Buffalo.
The state agency backed energy-efficiency projects at UB that will save about $513,000 in energy costs and eliminate more than 2,600 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. NYSERDA also awarded $1.4 million to support a pair of energy-efficiency projects at ECMC that are projected to cut electricity costs by about $680,000 a year.
NYSERDA awarded $2.5 million for energy-efficiency projects at UB, with almost $1 million of the funding and $300,000 of the savings a result of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects at the reconstructed and renamed Kapoor Hall on the South Campus and at Davis Hall, the electrical engineering and computer science building on the North Campus.
Greiner Hall on the North Campus, the Educational Opportunity Center in downtown Buffalo and Hayes Hall on the South Campus are other projects.
The NYSERDA-funded initiatives bring UB closer to its goal to increase sustainability and become carbon neutral by 2030.
The energy-saving projects support Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Build Smart NY initiative to increase energy-efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent in seven years by strategically accelerating priority improvements in energy performance.
The first ECMC project is for upgrades to its central cooling plant, and the second involves measures to save energy at ECMC's Terrace View Long-Term Care Facility.
A total investment of $6 million in the cooling plant includes chiller and cooling tower replacements. NYSERDA is providing almost $1.2 million for the upgrades as well as cost-sharing for a feasibility study conducted by M/E Engineering PC, which helped the medical center optimize its energy-efficiency investments. This renovations are projected to save the medical center more than 5 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, enough to power more than 720 average-sized homes for a year.
Energy-saving measures incorporated at Terrace View Long-Term Care Facility, a 300,000-square-foot, five-story building that opened this month, will help reduce energy costs by more than $250,000 annually and decrease electricity consumption by more than 1.5 million kilowatt hours, enough to power more than 200 homes a year. The NYSERDA incentive is $220,000.
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After two and a half long weeks of previews, the press' reviews for Mojo are finally here!
Opening night seems to have gone superbly and reviews are flowing in from some of the West End's toughest critics. We've summarised them for you below, as well as their awarded star rating.
"But in fact all but Grint, who is making his professional theatre debut but absolutely deserves to be in their company, have substantial stage experience, so the play isn't compromised." - **** from Mark Shenton, London Theatre
"...the show looks set to become a smash hit all over again, with a cast that includes Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame in his stage debut, the mesmerising Ben Whishaw, and Daniel Mays, an actor of compelling virtuosity who is at the top of his game here." - **** from The Telegraph
"You won't find much better ensemble acting than this, nor a play that so effectively punctures the pretensions of a hermetic gangland culture." - **** from The Guardian
"Rupert Grint (Ron from the Harry Potter films) makes an assured stage debut as Sweets, a pill-popping, pill-dealing kid with a hollow confidence. His opening dialogue with Daniel Mays's garrulous, sweaty Potts is played out at a beguilingly brisk comic pitch." - **** from The London Times
"Unmissable." - ***** from WhatsonStage
"As Sweets, Rupert Grint makes an impressive stage debut as sidekick's sidekick..." - **** from TimeOut
"Rupert Grint thankfully cuts the mustard in his stage debut as Sweets. Vaguely reminiscent of Harry Potter's Ron, but with more pills and swearing; gormless and always slightly wired. Grint is blessed with natural comic timing that cannot be taught – he is almost constantly on stage and manages humour even when he's not saying anything." - BargainTheatreland
"Rupert Grint, making his stage debut, holds his own as drug-addled fool Sweets." - The London Evening Standard
More below:
The Express | The Arts Desk | Radio Times | Official London Theatre | The Daily Mail
Our congratulations to the entire cast and crew!
If you haven't seen it yet, tickets are still available here and our Mojo Christmas Giveaway (where you can win not one, not two but THREE tickets to see the show on Xmas Eve!) is here.
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CALCUTTA - The Beavers slayed the Red Dragons.
DeShawn Parker recorded two to lead the Beaver Local boys' soccer team to a 2-1 win Thursday night over visiting Niles in a makeup game.
With the win, Beaver Local assured itself a winning season. The Beavers ended regular season play at 9-7. With the loss, Niles drops to 3-12-1.
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Beaver?Local's?Garrett Speelman kicks the ball on Thursday against Niles. (Photo by Aaron Petchal)
The game was also the final regular season game for the Beavers in the All-American Conference.
"We were able to get out of the game with no red cards and no injuries," first-year Beaver Local head coach Mike Hilliard said. "The kids played their hearts out. The played right until the end.
"You have to give Niles credit. They didn't stop. They pushed until the final whistle had blown. It was just like that the last time."
Chase Hilliard and Brian Jackson each netted assists for the Beavers, who continue to play with just 11 healthy players.
"What they do with the amount of kids they have is really incredible," Niles head coach Joshua MacMillan said. "They just don't kick and run. They play hard the the whole game."
Beaver Local once again used two goalies in the game. Brandon Fetty started the game, and Chase Hilliard came on in the second half to finish the game out. Fetty tallied six saves, while Hilliard delivered five.
Seth Egry recorded the lone goal of the game for the Red Dragons. JC Pierko assisted on the goal. Noah Arvin made six saves in goal.
Beaver Local scored the first two goals of the game to lead 2-0 in the second half, but Niles stepped up the pressure in an attempt to tie the score.
The Red Dragons' offensive pressure increased following the goal by Egry. Niles spent the last few minutes of the game on constant attack. The Red Dragons had a couple golden opportunities to draw even, but one shot hit the post, Chase Hilliard made a couple of key saves the Beavers' defense was able to clear the ball out of harms way to temporarily give the Beaver Local players a much-needed in the break.
As the final seconds ticked off the clock, the Red Dragons mounted one final push, but in the end the Beavers were able to clear the ball away just as the final whistle blew to end the hard-fought game.
"It was an exciting finish," MacMillan said. "We fought until the end.
"The important thing is no one on either team got hurt, and now we both head into next week."
Niles will open up play in the Austintown District in Division II at 7 p.m. Monday at Champion. While the Red Dragons know who they will be facing in their postseason opener, the Beavers will have to wait to find out who they play.
Beaver Local is scheduled to play at 8 p.m. Wednesday night in Eastern District Sectional Semifinal match down at Harding Stadium. Beaver Local will play the winner of the sectional opener between East Liverpool and Indian Creek. The game between the Potters and Redskins is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at Harding.
The Beaver Local game will follow the first semifinal of the night, featuring Edison and Steubenville. That game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
"We are going to try and take it easy," Coach Hilliard said about his team's plan in the next few days leading up to the tournament game. "We only have 11 kids, but we do need to practice. It seemed it like they lost a little bit of energy toward the end. We need to practice, but we also need the rest."


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Richard III: Director, Michael Bogdanov; Designer, Chris Dyer (ahds.ac.uk/performingarts): English Shakespeare Company, February 1989.
"[Andrew] Jarvis came across in this modern dress version of the play as a small-time Mafia Godfather rather than a monster before whom kings, princes and nobles trembled. With a stiff left leg a minor hump and a kangaroo hop, clothed in Saville Row suits, he hardly looked like the deformed, unfinished creature at which dogs barked in the street." Milton Shulman, Evening Standard 16.2.89. Opening Date: 14 February 1989, Theatre: Old Vic
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Columbia, S.C. - Tonight's NCAA Baseball Regional Final contest between Stetson and fourth-ranked South Carolina has been suspended due to extreme weather and power outage at Carolina Stadium. The game is slated to resume at 1 p.m. Monday.
The Hatters trail the Gamecocks 4-1 with two out in the top of the fifth when the contest resumes. If Stetson wins and forces a winner-take-all second game, that start time is TBA at this time.


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The new method involves a way I discovered to have the 360 automatically switch between VGA mode and normal A/V mode depending on if there is a monitor hooked up to the 360 or not (uses pin 11: monitor_ID).
This tut also includes installing a 3.5mm headphone jack so you can also hook up your PC speakers. The audio output is active all the time, regardless of if you're using the VGA plug or a regualr A/V cable, though you could jsut as easily use another tutorial to wire up a coaxial/optical S/PDIF output instead.
So, let's get on with it!
Required materials:
Xbox 360
Female 15 pin (VGA) port
Female 3.5mm stereo headphone jack (I had some spares laying around from Samsung 616T dvd-rom mods)
A buncha pieces of wire (about 24-26 gague works fine)
Some coaxial audio cable (hacking up an old pair of headphones works great)
Soldering iron
Dremel or other tool to cut the metal shield and case so you can get to your new VGA port
We'll start by saying this: it looks difficult, but it's not really that hard. The solder points are fairly large, it's not like the Xbox 1 D0 point or anything.
The colors of the pins on the pictures of the Xbox360 motherboard and the audio/vga ports correspond, but I will also give pin numbers.
First, the VGA port (shown from the back side, the side you should be soldering to. Pin 1 is top left. Pins and their corresponding grounds are circled together (is important later)
Pin 1: (Red) - Red output
Pin 2: (Green) - Green output
Pin 3: (blue) - Blue output
Pin 5: (black) - H-sync Ground
Pins 6-8: (black) - Red, green, and blue grounds
Pin 10: (black) - V-sync ground
Pin 11: (Yellow) - Monitor_ID (sets video mode to VGA in xbox 360)
Pin 13: (orange) - H-sync
Pin 14: (purple) - V-sync
Begin by putting a ~ 6 inch piece of wire on each of the data pins, and a different color of wire for the grounds, so you don't get confused.
Now, there's a reason why each pair of wires on the picture is circled. To reduce interferance in the wires, you must twist each data pin (except Monitor_ID) around its corresponding ground, the ground wire will shield the data pin from interferance.
So, you will have 5 twisted pairs coming off the VGA port, plus Monitor_ID. (it helps to label them by sticking a small piece of tape to each pair and writing R,G,B,H, and V on them).
The audio jack (the top of the picture is the end that the plug goes in):
Top: (black) - Ground
Middle: (red) - Right
Bottom: (white) - Left
Take your piece of audio coax, strip back the shielding on it and twist it up and solder it to the ground pin on the jack.
Then, solder one of the center wires to the red, and the other to the black (if your piece of coax only has one center wire you need to use two pieces, but if you got the wire from an old pair of headphones it will usually have two condutcors inside, or it will be two pieces of coax already stuck together)
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Part II
The motherboard:
You obviously need to open your Xbox 360 (bye bye warranty, it's only 3 months anyways who cares), and remove your motherboard from the metal shielding (please be aware of static electricity, it will damage your mobo if you're not careful), we will be soldering to the bottom side of the board, under the audio/video plug.
Each pin is conviently numbered on the board (going across it goes 2, 6, 10, 14... then 4, 8, 12, 16, 20... then 1, 5, 9, 13, 17... then 3, 7, 11, 15...)
Starting on top left, then moving across:
Pins 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 1, 5, 9, 13, 27 (black) - Ground (they're all connected to each other so it does not matter which ground pin you use.
Pin 4 (green) - Green output (VGA)
Pin 8 (blue) - Blue output (VGA)
Pin 12 (purple) - V-sync (VGA)
Pin 16 (white) - Left (Audio)
Pin 20 (yellow) - VGA Mode select (hook to VGA Pin 11, Monitor_ID)
Pin 3 (Red) - Red (VGA)
Pin 11 (orange) - H-sync (VGA)
Pin 15 (Red) - Right (audio)
OK, solder up all your points (easier said than done, just take your time and triple check that all your connections are correct)
End of part II
Edited by G0t M4xx 21, 13 August 2006 - 06:03 AM.


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