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This is a simple, yet very friendly and comfortable hotel near the Place de la Nation and Bastille area of Paris. My girlfriend and I stayed here based on favorable reviews, and we weren't disappointed.
The double room we stayed in on the fifth floor was fairly small but clean and comfortable. There was a phone, TV with CNN International in English (the rest was in French), desk with chair, armoire (no closet), and wif-fi access (for an additional charge) in the room. The pillows were a bit small and thin, but they happily provided us extras when requested. The bathroom only has a shower, no bathtub, but I think this is typical. I'm not sure if they are offered in other rooms in the hotel. There's a slight rumbling from the Metro, but on the fifth floor, it didn't bother us much. The room was very quiet overall, though we could hear our neighbor snoring occasionally. We had a great view of the street below from our balcony, which doubled nicely as a chiller for our champagne during those cold winter nights.
There's also a nice little bar with leather chairs in the lobby where you can have drinks. Breakfast is offered until 11am, but we never tried it. There are so many patisseries and boulangeries in Paris (several across the street from the hotel), we couldn't justify it. The service was excellent. The front-desk staff speaks English and was very helpful with maps, suggestions, French advice, etc.
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A term used in the firearm community to describe an individual who is obsessed with tactical, paramilitary style firearms and modifications, particularly firearms composed mostly of plastic. Such individuals are usually un-experienced novices who compulsively overpay for weapons and accessories not worth their weight in dog crap because such items looked cool in movies and video games. Jeff: "Dude check out my new AR-15. Its got quad rails, a flashlight/ laser combination, a dummy grenade launcher, a bayonet, a telescoping stock, and an ACOG scope!"
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A young male who wears a dark trench coat and obsesses with death, violence, violent video games, and firearms (in a way vastly different from firearms collectors and those who enjoy shooting). This type of young male may have long messy hair. He also resembles the spazzy, violent, and unpredictable criminals that perpetrated the Trolley Square (Utah) and Von Maur (Omaha Nebraska) mall shootings. This type of male is barely interested in females, and may have recently been dumped. The term "ninja" seems to have stuck to these types of young males because they behave as if they are invincible. Plus, the weapon of choice in these mall shootings has been a long weapon (rifle), which the mall ninja seems to prefer because it's length makes them feel they are wielding a sword (like a ninja). "I'm worried about Jason, he always wears a trench coat, he plays violent video games, is obsessed with firearms and death. You know, since Jennifer dumped him, he's becoming a mall ninja."
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Wambach was the celebrity captain at Sunday's Lancer's game; her first public appearance since winning the FIFA World Player of the Year award.
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Clinton's speech came at the Creativity Conference, a half-day meeting hosted by the Motion Picture Association of America, Microsoft, and Time Magazine, where participants ranging from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to HBO CEO Richard Plepler discussed issues in the creative economy ranging from federal research and development investment to copyright. While there was a clear consensus on the first issue, with even Cantor, who has focused on spending cuts, suggesting that the government had a valuable role to play in research and development, some participants spoke frankly, and even harshly, on the subject of copyright.
"So I think a very good business plan [is] here, use somebody else's content for free, deliver it, don't pay them anything, and build a $500 billion silicon valley company, and then have cool slogans like 'We just want to help the world,'" said Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of the Weinstein Company, appearing to refer to YouTube and its parent company Google. "They're stealing. That's what they're doing. My artists, they can't be artists if they're hungry. The starving artist, trust me, that's a myth. When you're starving you're starving. It's hard to be creative in that situation."
Clinton, by contrast, sought to establish a different framework in his remarks, suggesting that the conflict in creating copyright policy was not between who should be allowed to profit from the creation of individual work, from music to pharmaceutical development, but between balancing the interests of content finding a wide audience and making it sustainable to develop. "We have to keep struggling to find the right balance between creativity, broadly and quickly shared, and as widely understood as possible, and making it reasonably profitable for people to be creatives," Clinton argued. As one example, he praised Saint Jude's Children's Research Hospital, which does not accept fees for services, but encourages patients whose families can pay to make ongoing donations to the institution, and which voluntarily makes public significant amounts of its data to aid in drug development.
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BILLINGS Tuff Harris can go back to being called Chester now.
Sure, the Colstrip junior did dethrone Havre's Steve Heberly as Class A state champion in the 100 at MetraPark, but it was their rematch in the 200 Blue Ponies fans will care to remember.
Harris, undefeated in both the 100 and 200 the entire season, led Heberly in the 200 by half a stride entering the second half of the race.
But Tuff, whose first name is actually Chester but earned that nickname after surviving two bouts with pneumonia at the age of 1, was shown what tough was all about by the Blue Ponies' wiry sophomore.
Heberly pulled even with Harris with 70 meters left and staked a half-step lead for himself 20 meters later.
At that point, Harris stopped running at fall speed and straightened up, allowing Heberly to pull away for the victory in a blazing 22.11 seconds. Harris followed in second with a 22.29.
"Once I got ahead, it didn't seem like he tried to fight back," Heberly said.
That turned out to be quite a shock for Heberly, who said, "I don't know how I won. I just wanted to make sure he didn't get too far ahead of me."
Havre coach John Ita said Harris tightened up after Heberly put the pressure on.
"We told Steve, At 30 meters if you keep it close and relax, you'll pull by that kid,'" Ita said.
That attitude was excusable after a fantastic performance by Harris in the 100, which he finished in 10.88 seconds just a day after setting an all-class record of 10.77 on Friday. Heberly was a stride slower in 10.94, a personal best.
"He's really quick out of the blocks," Heberly said. "It was pretty good for me; he was just better."
Heberly's victory was the lone win on Saturday for Havre, which entered the day with aspirations of hunting for a boys' team title, but instead settled for a tie for sixth place with Belgrade with 35 points.
Paced by Harris, Colstrip secured the boys' championship with 89 points. Butte Central was second with 54 and Whitefish third with 52.
Havre's 400 relay team won its heat in prelims Friday, but it was unable to overcome an early deficit in a tight third-place finish.
Colstrip, anchored by Harris, was able to squeeze out a win by just one-hundredth of a second over Lewistown, which was second with a time of 43.24. Havre followed closely with a 43.39.
"They ran the same time they did last year when they won the state title," Ita said. "It was real tough this year."
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Whitefish blew away the field in a four-second win and time of 3:25.02, and Havre finished 5 1/2 seconds back in a disappointing fourth-place finish (3:30.59).
Joe Roman placed third in the 800 with a time of 2:00.61, five seconds behind two-time champion Kevin O'Brien of Polson (1:55.80).
"(The pace) was too slow," Roman said. "I wanted to go three seconds faster."
Grant Roman, Joe's twin brother, finished sixth in the 400 with a 50.79. Billings Central's Jake Sienko won the event at 48.93.
Havre's girls placed 11th in the team standings with 17 points, well behind champion which finished with 85. Colstrip was second with 71 and Sidney third with 64.
Lashae Michels finished third in the long jump (16-11 3/4) and fourth in the triple jump (34-10 1/2).
Havre's 400 relay team was fourth in the event with a time of 51.31. Anaconda (50.82) won the event with a narrow victory over Miles City (50.83).
"Every person in the relay ran well, but it was just the handoffs," Havre's Alyssa Matter said. "If the handoffs went as well as last weekend at divisionals, we would have won."
Jayla McPherson was fifth in the discus, just a little more than six feet shy of a state title. Her throw of 111 feet, 7 inches was short of Libby's Katie Kroeger, who totaled 117-11.
Jen Peterson, the Class A state champ in the 3,200 last year, was well short of that achievement this year. She placed sixth in the event with a time of 12:08.12, nearly 25 seconds slower than Colstrip's Jesse Ballew, who won the race with an 11:43.83.


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Friday, March 02, 2007
My flight to LA was over an hour late landing and by the time I retrieved my luggage and arrived at my hotel it was very late but I had someone very important to meet that night and I was very excited. Prior to my trip I had arranged to meet with Kris, our adopted Criminal Minds future celeb, to meet him and take him out to dinner. He is a struggling actor and I wanted to buy him a nice meal, grab a couple of his resumes and spend some time getting to know him. It was so late by the time I settled in at my hotel that we ended up walking next door and grabbing some McDonalds to take back to my hotel to eat. We sat in the lobby eating and chatting. He is a delightful young man. He gave me the resumes that I had requested and you will hear more about that in a future post. Bless his heart he tried to calm my nervousness about going onto the Criminal Minds set the next morning. He tried but I was truly a nervous wreck. I would have liked to have spent more time with him that night and I prayed that I would be able to find a way to help this sweet young man. Little did I dare to dream that I would see Kris again on my trip. :)
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I would have been a nervous wreck too! Glad you two got to meet eachother!
- Friday, March 02, 2007
He must have been so happy to meet you.
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I'm glad you got to meet Kris. Hope you had a really good time. We wxpect to hear you talking about this trip for weeks now. LOL, especially since there won't be a new ep aired for weeks. Did they make you promise not to tell anyone what happenes on the ep? Did you get to meet the whole cast? Oh, please, yes. How'd everybody like their gifts? Inspections didn't sneak anything out of the box did they? Can't wait for more news, will be checking back often.
BTW, how about instant gratification, I just posted that I couldn't wait for your next update ike ten minutes ago, and here it is.
LoraLee - Friday, March 02, 2007
I know how much you like this young man and it does seem as though he is our very own actor to be. I am glad that you were able to meet him!
- Friday, March 02, 2007
This is all so cool! I wish I'd sent cookies or something for him. And don't worry, Kill -- NEXT TIME you can take him out for a nice dinner!
- Friday, March 02, 2007
Don't worry JILL -- sorry about that -- see what happens when you show me pretty pictures and nothing but teasers?
- Friday, March 02, 2007
I have only been watching the show since the Super Bowl but even I am so excited. I am wondering what it was like to meet the cast. I really like the show and am so glad that I found this blog.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
- Elizabeth said...
Jill - I'm not surprised you were nervous - I would have been. How nice to meet Kris and I'm looking forward to Jill in Criminal Minds Land part two.
nebula - Friday, March 02, 2007
Jill, I can't wait to hear everything. Kris is a handsome young man and I am so glad you got to meet him.
I guess since we aren't getting any new episodes for awhile, this is good timing. We can get installments of the details of your trip instead!
Can't wait to hear everything! - Friday, March 02, 2007
What a nice thing for you to do. I bet he appreciated meeting you and that you cared about his resume. I bet he was very nice.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
It is so nice to see a pic of you. Now I have a face to go with your name dear friend. You are both very lovely.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
What a wonderful picture of both of you! I'm so glad you were able to meet each other at last. Looking forward to the story of your next meeting.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
So that's what our wonderful Kris looks like! He is cuuuuuuuute! I'd go to LA to visit him anytime! Oh, and I'd manage to squeeze in the cast of CM, too. LOL
- Friday, March 02, 2007
wow - sounds like a nerve wracking start to the trip. looking forward to hearing more.
Ben - Friday, March 02, 2007
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Jill, it's so cool that you got to meet Kris and it's a lovely pic of the both of you!
Looking forward to more installments of your trip--did you get to meet any of the writers--and did you ask about Hotch's timeline/backstory for me? *G* - Friday, March 02, 2007
Oh, this is so cool! I want to hear EVERYTHING that you did while on set--I'm really hoping you got to meet Mandy, since you are such a fan! Did you get to meet Thomas? He seems like a really nice guy...
I guess I'll just have to wait to find out! - Friday, March 02, 2007
Jill, I forgot to mention that I really like the blouse you're wearing in that pic.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
I'm so glad you got to meet Kris, and the cast of CM as well! Its great to put a face to the name and its such a great picture! Since you took a copy of Kris's resume, does this mean he'll be landing a part on CM? lol, that would be pretty cool!
- Friday, March 02, 2007
Hey Jill! When you were at the set, I hope you got to ask about Reid's addiction storyline!HEHE. I'm wondering if they are going to continue with it, because the ending of Jones left more questions then answers.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
Kris Jill wanted to feed you..that is so the mother in her! Glad you had a good time!
Lee :) - Friday, March 02, 2007
- ann said...
wow..... we need to talk
lotsa luv ann xxxxxx - Friday, March 02, 2007
Oh yes, did you meet the CM CMs?
Elizabeth - Friday, March 02, 2007
so excited. can't wait to hear more. What a fantastic treat from the Criminal Minds crew!
- Friday, March 02, 2007
how nice to see you at last. hope to hear more soon.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
He is a handsome young man and it would be super cool to see him make it big. Then we could say that we knew him when......
- Friday, March 02, 2007
Sounds like you had a great time - can't wait to hear all about it!
- Friday, March 02, 2007
I'm so glad none of your luggage got lost! I hope you got some good sleep before your next exciting day.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
I am so excited to hear about the rest of your trip
- Friday, March 02, 2007
I hope that he appreciates you getting his resume and trying to help him. Not everyone would be so kind to think about another person during their own special moment.
- Friday, March 02, 2007
Hi Jill. Thanks for looking out for my baby, Kris. He really thinks highly of you. This must have been an exciting experience for you. Kris' Mom - Jill
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- DNY LOVES CRIMINAL MINDS said...
Kris's Mom: You raised a wonderful young man. It was an honor to meet and to help him. I am grateful to CBS for allowing me the opportunity to do both. :)
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- Kris said...
Hey everyone, I just got home after another 12 hour day on the set of Criminal Minds. I don't know what to say....I'm speechless.
Jill knows that I cannot thank her enough. If I wasn't a broke actor right now, I would have done ANYTHING for her!! We are surely going to stay in touch, and when I am able, I will definitely repay her. Words can' describe the opportunity that she has provided me with.
It's so nice to see you all saying nice things about me, and about Jill too. I would love nothing more to to get even a small part on Criminal Minds. I will surely be trying. - Friday, March 02, 2007
It's so exciting to experience your journey with you.
A really nice picture of you both.
Finally there's a face behind this wonderful blog... ;-)
CU sindee - Saturday, March 03, 2007
This is just all so out of this world. I googled the show and found your blog. And I am hooked now on both. I only mildly liked the show before but this has cemented it for me. I will always watch it now.
Celeste in Norway - Saturday, March 03, 2007
It's great that you are helping your friend out. He seems to know what he wants to do in his life. Sounds like a great opportunity of a lifetime.
Marie - Saturday, March 03, 2007
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That is so nice that as tired as you were you still met with him. Kisses to you!
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I guess once you're a part of the CM family, you're stuck with us.
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Here we go...... might as well gauge what we're dealing with....
How many mighty SEC teams do you think could beat the Carolina Panthers or the Cleveland Browns ?
Just get AJ McCarron's girlfriend to play RB for the Falcons.
She can could probably rip of 4.3 per carry just being from the SEC....
Just saw on the sports scroll they also got rid of Abraham and Dunta Robinson.


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Election 2012: Kane Will Be First Woman, First Democrat Elected to Hold PA Attorney General Post
Pennsylvania voters elect their first woman and first Democrat to be the state's attorney general.
Kathleen Kane achieved two firsts in her Pennsylvania attorney general election victory:
- First woman to be elected attorney general
- First Democrat to win the top prosecutor's post
She defeated Republican David Freed 56 to 41 percent in unofficial results from Tuesday's voting.
Kane won the support of Lehigh Valley voters on her way to statewide success:
Lehigh County
- Kane: 74,854
- Freed: 55,440
Northampton County
- Kane: 66,772
- Freed: 52,675
Kane, 46, is a former Lackawanna County prosecutor who will now oversee an office with a staff of about 700 and subject to legislative battles over a budget that now stands at $81 million, according to a Philly.com report.
Kane had a slight fundraising edge in the race.
Both candidates pledged a review of the Jerry Sandusky child rape case and its handling by former Attorney General Tom Corbett, now the state's governor.
4:17 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I hope the first thing she does is investigate the involvement tom corbett had in the penn state scandal
7:29 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
"Both candidates pledged a review of the Jerry Sandusky child rape case and its handling by former Attorney General Tom Corbett, now the state's governor."
9:22 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I hope she does not open the Sandusky case, or anything related to it. The scandal has dragged on long enough.
How about addressing current matters? Why not devote effort to that which is in front of PA citizens? Far too much time has been given to some of the matters of long ago, at the expense of keeping the current workload front-center.
While many talk about unity, about non-partisanship, and working together, others use any opportunity to continue to drag up old stuff that is primarily driven by revenge.
8:11 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Penn State scandal is unfinished business and should find closure, Sandusky got 30-60 years ,there are those that should be his cell mate.
Mark A.
8:42 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
I dont understand why you would be against an investigation of the guy who didnt properly investigate Sandusky at the time. Surely if he is found to have been complicit then that would serve as an example against people who might be tempted to make the same choices in the future?
Janis OD
9:39 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
"Dragging up old stuff for revenge" may be your opinion of the motivation, but my interest is seeing that all players in the tragedy are held responsible and accountable for their actions. This is a criminal case and the motivations of those who knew of the scandalous abuse I cannot imagine.
9:59 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Yea, yea, yea, ... we always hear the "justice is done" reasoning. Reality is often far different. The vendetta mantra is rampant in state politics. Continuing to pursue all those people surrounding the Sandusky case is a time and money pit.
Why has this case continued to see so much coverage and have so much interest? The answer is pretty simple: We (including myself) like to see the demise of others so that we can show ourselves and others how we are better. Not to minimize the actions of Sandusky, or dismiss them, we are all of the same stripe of wrongdoing. Just because my wrongdoing, and yours, isn't public and so obvious, we are guilty nevertheless. Not one of us meet the standard of perfection.
8:11 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Roger - not sure what type of nonpublic wrongdoing is in your closet, but personally, anything wrong I've done in my life doesn't begin to approach the abuse of children which will scar them for life.
It's popular to say enough is enough in big public cases like this, but it always seems to get said right before the involvement of the highest level of those involved starts to come in question. Sandusky was allowed to continue to work with children for years after it was well known what he had done. For the attorney general at the time (Corbett) to allow him to continue his heinous actions while he plodded along in his investigation needs to be looked at. How many kids were molested while Corbett played politics with the republican guard at Penn State? Sorry if you're bored by the whole thing, I'd like the investigation to be completed, no matter what office the offenders hold.
7:43 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Quoting: " ... but personally, anything wrong I've done in my life doesn't begin to approach the abuse of children which will scar them for life. ..."
Thank you for proving my point. Your statement is exactly the kind of thinking that makes my assertion correct, "... yea, I may be bad, but not as bad as him .... now I feel better about myself." The penalty for wrongdoing is uncoupled from public, and nonpublic. What does the nature of the wrongdoing have to do with the matter? Wrong is wrong. Who do we delude if we think the wrongs we do in private are OK?
I see you have not refuted my assertion about why we enjoy seeing the demise of others.
What will define "finished" for you?
8:14 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
Roger - you certainly read a lot into my statement about any wrongdoing I've done in my life, and you completely miss the point. Your original point about none of us being perfect DOES minimize Sandusky's actions, even though you want to think it doesn't.
To rephrase your original logic - Why did we give so much attention to Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma bombing. We just like to see the demise of others, right, to make ourselves feel better about ourselves. We've all done things that are wrong, none of us are perfect, we're all the same when it comes to wrongdoing. Why investigate McVeigh any further to see if others are involved, it just takes time and money. Oh, and I'm not trying to minimize the actions of McVeigh.
8:14 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
See how ridiculous that argument sounds in the case of a horrible crime? Seeing the demise of some arrogant public figure trying to tell us all how to live our lives, then getting caught in a sordid sex scandal - yes it does make us feel good to see the demise of someone in that case, I'll admit to that. But to apply your theory of shadenfreude to horrible cases of child molestation, murder and other violent crimes is just over simplification. You equating a joint I may have smoked in my house or buying something I think may have been stolen or cheating on my wife to child molestation is pretty ridiculous. Sorry, you missed my intent, I didn't prove your point because I don't buy your point. Being bored with an issue is not a reason to stop looking for those complicent in a crime. I know the American public has a short attention span, but why are some always ready to move on just when the investigation gets to someone in power?
8:14 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
Finished in this case is defined by thoughoughly looking into who knew what was going on with Sandusky and finding out if their actions or lack of actions contributed to more crimes being committed. They've gone through the entire athletic dept. and leadership of Penn St., as they should have. Time to look outside the state-run school and see if anyone else looked the other way when further horrible crimes could have been prevented, especially by those entrusted to prosecute and prevent the continuation of a criminal activity.
Finished, to me, is not when the news cycle is done and we need to direct our limited attention to something else, or we've already spent enough money and time. Finished is when we know that everyone who committed a crime or allowed a crime to happen has been punished. Kids were hurt and scarred for life, I think it's the least we can do.
9:04 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
JS, clearly you are not understanding my point. I will put it succinctly: Wrongdoing is not graded on a curve.
Timothy McVeigh has zero to do with this case. Bringing in something like this is to obfuscate the matter.
The Sandusky case had all the things that made it work for huge public consumption: sex, abuse of boys, high-profile athletic department and brand name coach, divisive perception of the college. With the many, many cases of sexual abuse of children, the media had a high-yielding field. It was the media dream case, and promoted as such. No other case received this kind of coverage.
I contend, and nobody chooses to refute the argument, that the news consumers sucked up all the nectar of the stories. Of all the news stories, this one sopped up much of the oxygen in the room. People like to follow stories in which the villain is a scumbag in their view. Again, why? Because it makes them feel so much better about themselves. Your comment proved my point, "... I've done bad, but nothing like Sandusky....," as if your wrong-doing was better. Ha, ha, ... Kidding yourself, huh?
Relativism has seeped into the thinking on many fronts, and this is one of them. What sets your moral compass that says, "I am OK because I don't sexually abuse boys like Sandusky?" The reason people want more investigation is keep Sandusky's name in the news.
I'm sorry, but your idea of "finished" lacks definition. There will always be one more rock to overturn.
11:16 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
"my interest is seeing that all players in the tragedy are held responsible and accountable "
I agree, Janis.
Would they have been satisfied that the hijackers of 9-11 all died and that a lot of the key players were captured/killed, and say let's just let Osama binLaden go, and let's just "address current matters"?
Same thing here, if there are still guilty parties out there, they ALL should be brought to justice.
9:25 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
Roger - your point has been pretty consistent. You want the investigation to end for two reasons:
One - We all do wrong and people just want to continue this to make themselves feel better about our own crimes and misdemeanors. I still find this argument attempts to trivialize the serious damage that was done to children in this case by comparing it to minor trangressions that we all have in our closet.
Two - The media has oversaturated us with this story because of the people involved, the college it occured at and the type of crime committed. Therefore we should just put this to bed because it could be neverending and too expensive. I don't refute the oversaturation of this story, I just reject it as a reason to stop investigating those that may have allowed the crimes to go on and create more victims of this monster.
I understand your points, I just reject them. Good luck against Nebraska today.
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1:52 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Can we get a poll into this article? Who thinks Roger is a PSU grad????
7:43 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Just as JS, you have no refutation of my assertion.
What does "PSU" grad have to do with anything?
8:19 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
How about we find out why the top law enforcement official in the state(Attorney Gen. Corbett) failed to bring charges against Sandusky when he had a chance to,at the very least, charge and expose Sandusky and eliminate any more opportunities for him to abuse children. Instead,he remained associated with Sandusky`s First Mile Charity and then when the scandal blew up rushed and bullied the Board of Trustees into throwing others under the bus. Corbett is implicit in this scandal....keep watching!
9:25 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
Yes! This is what we have been discussing.
"Both candidates pledged a review of the Jerry Sandusky child rape case and its handling by former Attorney General Tom Corbett, now the state's governor."


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David Bowie
The Rolling Stones
Thin White Duke!
He sold his soul for a shot at fame
Catchphrase and wigs and the jokes are lame...
The Replacements
How unfortunate that the one loosing seems the most likely.
The Rolling Stones would be magical at Coachella.
With our love-we could save the world-if they only knew.
This is Zafocaine to ground control...
I'm dreading the day Daft does Coachella. They'll go against some punk band in the Gobi that no one will care about so 74,450 people will be at the Main Stage which they camped at for the last 3 acts which they weren't even excited for. *sigh*
The Rolling Stones
Nothing would top Bowie for me
Bowie is retired from the stage. He outright said he will not tour for the new album.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.
Coachella: 08, 09, 10, 11, 12w1, 12w2, 13w1
Lollapalooza: 08,10,11,12
Burning Man: 08,10
06 07 08 09 10
Bowie, motherfuckers.
Blur-Stone Roses-YYY-Modest Mouse-J5-Grinderman-HTDA-Local Natives-Infected Mushroom-Jonny Marr-Four Tet-Aesop Rock-Jello Biafra-Earl Sweatshirt-Beardyman
Sugir Ros-New Order-Hot Chip-Grizzly Bear-Franz Ferdinand-Violent Femmes-Simian Mobile Disco-Spiritualized-Puscifer-Portugal the Man-Bat for Lashes-Theophilius London-Trash Talk
Nick Cave-Social D-Wu Tang-Pretty Lights-Tame Impala-Grimes-The Faint- Dinosaur Jr.-OMD-Roni Size-Rodriguez-The Three O'Clock-DIIV-(MAYBE RHCP)
I'd love to see Bowie and the Stones would be cool, but Daft Punk is non-stop awesome! I'd be happy with any of the 3.
99, 01, 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11,12,13
Dancing In The Desert and Loving Every Minute of Coachella!
Check out my Coachella pictures at Flickr.com under AJVaughn.com. Other art work there also!
There are 2 Coachella sets on Flickr.
This years print design for a giveaway:
This poll in itself proves what kind of headliner speculation the Rolling Stones were. Garbage.
Rolling Stones were out because of money issues? DP not likely. Bowie with the new album. So...none are showing.
Stop voting on this poll. You don't get any of these headliners.
a lad insane, bitches
Friday: Sparks, Jello Biafra ..., FOALS, Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, blur
Saturday: Wild Nothing, Portugal. The Man, Violent Femmes, Franz Ferdinand, Yeasayer, Descendents, Moby, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, It's New Order, bitch!
Sunday: Cloud Nothings, Tanlines, OMD, Paul Oakenfold, Grimes, La Roux, Eric Prydz, Nick Cave
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McCaffery: David Montgomery still betting on Phillies' core players
There are 162 scheduled games left in an era of Phillies baseball that will be remembered on walls of fame in their next six ballparks. One way or another, it is going to end David Montgomery's way. One way or another, it is going to end with them, all of them. The fans know who they are. They have all of their bobbleheads.
Montgomery is the Phillies' president and makes all of the franchise-defining seasons. He was around for one championship and its surrounding era of historic greatness, and he was in charge of the encore, a generation later. He knows how it works. And he believes that the Phillies are not popular just because they customarily win, nor because they nailed it with their new ballpark, nor because the fans have grown attached to what once was a championship nucleus. He believes the franchise has been on standing-room red-alert since 2007 for all of those reasons. All.
The ballpark drew fans. The players won games. The fans returned to watch those same players try to win again. Three strikes, he should pardon the expression.
"They like this team," Montgomery said during the last season. "They like these players."
They liked Jim Bunning, too, but he's not pitching opening day. Yet somewhere in Montgomery's gut, there has been the fear that smashing the nucleus of a team that 2.6 million people once smothered in confetti would be to risk smashing much more.
Montgomery is not so committed to the roster that he would encourage his GM to spend $126 million for Jayson Werth, or to keep the mistake-prone Shane Victorino forever, or to prevent Pat Burrell from leaking away later in his career. Even Brad Lidge, deserving of a ballpark statue, was allowed to leave. But at this time last year, the Phillies were sharply criticized for stashing another $33 million in Jimmy Rollins' shirt pocket. Later, they signed Cole Hamels, long-term, for $144 million, with Ruben Amaro appearing satisfied, if hardly prepared to party. Both investments, it was said, were pushed hard by Montgomery. Nor were they frivolous. Rollins enjoyed a bounce-back season, belting 23 home runs. Hamels, an irreplaceable left-handed ace, would have received at least that much in free agency. So it wasn't the money. It was, though, the policy; Montgomery will play this hand and he will not hesitate.
But that invites the question at the onset of the Grapefruit League: Are the Phillies bluffing, or do they still have the nut hand? Are they trying to fool another 3.5 million fans into believing that Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Rollins, Hamels and, eventually, the to-be-suspended Carlos Ruiz can still form a championship foundation, requiring only a few adornments: a new setup man, a couple of guys named Young, Darin Ruf and his alternate-uniform cap in the caucus stage of the NL Rookie of the Year ring? Or is that foundation solid, healthy for the first time in a while, able to play back only to 2011, when the Phillies won 102 times?
Either way, that is Montgomery's play. The alternative would have been to cash in on that 2008 championship and 2009 World Series experience, shepherding those players out the left field gate while waving another, hungrier group in from right. By now, that initiative might have been ready to pay off. The Phils, though, were terrified to part with a core that had been responsible for souvenir sales that could have been measured in 18-wheeler loads.
Utley is 34 and unsigned for 2014. Howard, 31, is committed only through 2016. Ruiz, facing a suspension for his choice of self-improvement products, is 34 and is on his final contact year. Rollins is 34, with two years left on his late-career pact. Then, there is Charlie Manuel, 69. He will spend his final season under contract racing Ryne Sandberg every night for the best parking spot in the company lot.
So it's all going to be over, soon. One hunch is that it should have been over already, and that the Phillies should have sold high, not settled for an era winding down. But that's not Dave Montgomery's hunch. That's not his hunch at all. Continued...
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Camden wins CNY wrestling tourney
VERONA - Depth made the difference for Camden at the annual CNY Wrestling Tournament at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill on Saturday.
The Blue Devils had just one champion - a dramatic one at that - but seven other wrestlers placed and at day's end their 134 points was good enough to beat Ilion (120.5), Deposit-Hancock (120), New Hartford (116) and Dolgeville (115) in a great team chase. Tom Confer's upset win at 160 against Oneida's state meet veteran Matt Fisher led the way for coach Bill Sullivan's Blue Devils.
And what a win it was. Easily the most watched of the night, Confer surprised Fisher with two pancakes in the early going. It led to two takedowns plus back points and an 8-1 lead. Fisher escaped late in the second period to cut his deficit to six points heading into the last period then escaped and began a string of takedowns and intentional escapes that narrowed Confer's lead to 9-7 with 40 seconds to go. Fisher gambled on trying for two takedowns in that span instead of going for back points and it paid off as he scored the second with a duck under with eight seconds left.
Fisher held on to force overtime against the tiring Confer but wound up being taken down on a hotly disputed call on the line midway in the OT period. Confer's 13-11 win clinched the team crown.
VVS had two chances at titles but Gage Patry fell 4-3 to B-G/A's Jamie Griswold at 152 and Lane Frost was taken down as time expired by Holland Patent's Taylor Short and lost 4-3 at 182.
Camden's lone runnerup was Dennis Hilts at 103 and Morrisville-Eaton's Wyatt Morris also took second, but at 285.
hilts fell 3-1 while Morris fell by the same score, except in overtime.
Camden 134, Ilion 120.5, Deposit/Hancock 120, New Hartford 116, Dolgeville 115, Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton 99, Holland Patent 94, Mohawk 81.5, VVS 80, Central Square 75.5, M-E 66, Windsor 62, Marcellus 52, Oneida 50, Whitesboro 48, Cohoes 47, Cooperstown 46.5, Proctor 22, Mount Markham 15, Poland 6, Little Falls 0, Waterville 0.
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106: Danny Fox (Dolgeville) d. Dennis Hilts (Camden) 3-1 Continued...
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120: Dan Fancett (New Hartford) d. Colby Hall (Deposit/Hancock) 4-0
126: Laken Cook (Ilion) md. Matt Haddad (Proctor) 8-0
132: John Mazza (Mohawk) p. Jesse Griswold (Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton) 3:15
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145: Triston Engle (Dolgeville) p. Bryan Bennett (Ilion) 5:31
152: Jamie Griswold (Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton) d. Gage Patry (VVS) 4-3
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220: Matt Abbott (Windsor) d. John Cavaretta (Marcellus) 3-2
285: Nick Scott (Cohoes) d. Wyatt Morris (Morrisville-Eaton) 3-1 OT
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State football: Marlboro loses in Class B semifinals
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Marlboro High School's quest for a state football championship fell short on Saturday, as the Dukes fell to Glens Falls, 28-17, in a Class B semifinal at Dietz Stadium.
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my God + my hubby + me the three of us work at it together. but it's the best kind of work.
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Gaming notebooks are a secret hobby of mine. I don't actually game that much – even my wife logs more hours than I do – but gaming notebooks are the only way to get the best of the best in a luggable form factor. Alienware is the name to beat in this space, but I've always wondered how they managed to survive the Dell acquisition.
I started out with a Dell XPS Gen 2. This system was an absolute beast; it survived my physical punishment than any system I've ever owned. My first Alienware was an Area-51 m5700 – essentially a rebadged Clevo. It had the performance the XPS simply didn't.
When I read the announcement in 2006, I feared the worst. Gaming notebooks you could drop down two flights of stairs while running were about to become extinct! In 2009, I went looking for a new notebook, and was crushed to find that the XPS line was no more. I got an Alienware M17x instead.
This lasted for nearly three years, but the right hinge on the monitor seized up about three months before the warrantee expired. I emailed them and asked if they'd be so kind as to send me the parts. They no longer had these parts in stock; would I like a full refund? I went for it, tossed in another $1,000 and I am typing this article on the result: the absolute top-of-the-line M18x circa Dec 2011.
The dual Radeon 6970s are perhaps overkill for minecraft, but 16GB of RAM and a quad core made it more than a gaming rig to me. This system is a "luggable" testbed – a virtual server with its own custom carrying case. More importantly, by having top-end video cards, it actually talks proper DDC/CI to LaCie monitors. This means that I can use it to test their hardware calibration – something I can't do with my netbook.
This is the niche that Alienware occupies. Because my clients have high-end requirements, I've worked with high-end notebooks from many manufacturers: MSI, Asus, Sager and so forth. But today's Alienware has a niche-within-a-niche. It makes luggable, full-featured systems that offer the very best modern technology has to offer, wrapped inside the closest thing you can get to indestructible without actually being milspec. Alienware does not make disposable computers.
By contrast, Dell survives almost entirely by making disposable computers – the two would seem to be each other's antithesis. Alienware's Frank Azor took time out to discuss the company's history.
Azor is quick to point out that mixing corporate DNA wasn't easy: "For the first two years we weren't very integrated, [and were] still really competing with each other." There was some market repositioning needed by both companies. High-end workstation products by Alienware were axed, and Dell discontinued my beloved XPS gaming notebooks.
According to Azor, "When we decided to replace the XPS gaming brand with Alienware, we didn't replace the teams, we consolidated them – the best of both teams together." This seems in keeping with my experience. My M18X has Alienware-class performance, but inherited the "little things" – like big fat power plugs that survive obscene amounts of insertions – that made the XPS so durable.
Azor says "the Dell business has been very receptive to picking and choosing the categories we want to work in". Give Alienware access to Dell's global supply chain, bargaining power and so forth, but let Alienware choose its own direction. Miraculously, Dell complied and everyone has benefited.
Azor is proud of Alienware, and his role in it. His voice changes when he talks about the early days of the company. "I'm a co-founder," he says. "Employee number 4." He reports that Alienware remains a very healthy business unit and is thankful to have access to Dell's might.
One area he expressed a particular displeasure with was the state of monitors. He believes that we need to be collectively pushing the industry to support higher resolution panels; it is something he has been working on and there were hints that this may come to fruition soon.
Azor is also cautious. He doesn't want to "put the brand at risk by branching out." My "please build us an Ultrabook that doesn't suck" idea was not well received. He doesn't want to start chasing the latest industry trend only to have to make so many compromises that it doesn't make sense to call the end result "Alienware". Reputations take years to build and a single day to destroy.
Azor believes that Alienware is rubbing off on Dell. Slowly but surely, Dell is coming to realise that the relentless drive to the bottom is a fool's game. Cutting every corner and grinding your own margins in the effort to undercut your competitor by a dollar is an unsustainable market. He says he already sees changes in thinking that are beginning to mirror Alienware's belief that refusing to compromise is what builds a brand's reputation for reliability.
After going through several gaming notebooks of her own, my wife would seem to agree. "I like that notebook," she says, pointing at her gaming rig. "It's my second MSI. I've been pretty polite to it, mostly just sitting it on a desk. But after a few trips, there are bits falling off. It's not a 'drag it to Austin and back' kind of a laptop. That $400 little Samsung netbook is more durable. It might be minuscule and made out of slow, but it's actually pretty tough. That's important."
Alienware is expensive, more so than competitors with the same specs. Despite this, my wife's next gaming rig will be an Alienware, and my next workstation will be as well. Six years after the acquisition, I realise that Alienware didn't survive the Dell merger intact after all – the corporate DNA of these two companies has truly intermixed and the resulting entity is better off than either were before. That's something truly rare. ®
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Alienware is one of the few "brands" I like; and I like them not because they pay me to, but because they make great stuff. I'm odd that way.
Flawless operation? Not a chance...
I'm absolutely delighted this columnist enjoyed their Alienware experience. Mine couldn't have been worse.
Back in 2006 I spent a not insubstantial amount of £1800 on an Alienware m9700 laptop. When it arrived it was Dead On Arrival. Sometimes it would switch on, other times it wouldn't. It went back within 48 hours.
A month later, when it returned, all was good. Until it started BSODing all the time a few months later. Multiple clean installs of Windows failed to cure the problem, so back it went to Alienware/Dell where it was fitted with what was now its third motherboard.
Back it came. All was good until the 12 month warranty ran out and it started exhibiting the same old BSOD issues. Fortunately Alienware / Dell agreed to repair it out of warranty for free (after some badgering).
Motherboard number 4!
Within a couple of months the WUXGA screen started playing up with vertical lines showing on the right side, then the BSODs started returning. Then the laptop stopped turning on altogether.
At the time, my wife was having some pretty serious health issues so I didn't have the time to waste badgering Alienware / Dell again. When I did eventually try contacting them I received no response, so the laptop to this day remains sitting in my IT room, broken, non functioning. A seriously good looking, but ultimately useless £1800 paperweight that didn't even give me a year of flawless operation.
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A new program in the community called Youth Empowered to Succeed (YES) is helping teens get the knowledge they need for life.
YES is a mentoring program designed for adolescents that partners youth with community leaders who serve as role models, confidants and a support structure. YES engages them in recreational activities, educational programs and social fun, such as working in a community garden, visiting colleges or job shadowing.
Youth involved with YES and their parents crowded into the Calvin Little Room of the Leath Memorial Library on Franklin Street in Rockingham on Tuesday for a meet and greet and to hear speakers.
The first speaker was Tenasha Goins, who works with YES.
"We all want our children to succeed," said Goins as she opened the event. She asked for a show of hands of those who are in college, and encouraged them to give themselves a round of applause.
Goins shared her story briefly with those in attendance.
"I graduated high school pregnant," said Goins. "My mother left high school pregnant. Now my daughter is finishing up school. I broke the cycle."
Goins urged parents to share their stories with their children, because "it makes them stronger."
The youth then heard from Richmond County Sheriff James Clemmons Jr.
"Although I am not from here, I feel like a product of this community," said Clemmons. "I have benefited from this community."
Clemmons said he holds two masters degrees, but was raised by a single parent in Philadelphia, "in what is known as 'the hood.'"
"There are no barriers out there. Drugs and crime break us down. If we (law enforcement) come to your neighborhood and you are seen talking to us, you are labeled a 'snitch,' and we are called the 'popo.' Stereotypes happen every day. I'm trying to bring respect back to the badge," said Clemmons.
Clemmons said he was relieved to see so many young men in a room together without any trouble. He addressed them on fathering children out of wedlock.
"Anybody can be a daddy but it takes hard work to be a father," he said. "Men, protect your women. Treat them like they are the mothers of the earth."
Clemmons went on to say that changes can be made in the community, and folks who feel disadvantaged can take control of their own lives.
"There is nothing so tough that we can't change," he said. "We can no longer blame others for our short comings. Excuses are tools of incompetence that build nothing."
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Partners in Ministry is dedicated to alleviating the many issues that affect the poor and oppressed in the community, according to their mission statement. Partners in Ministry has an intentional plan which has initiated a partnership among local church congregations and the community to work cooperatively to transform lives and respond to the needs of the lost, powerless, lonely and the marginalized families in Richmond, Robeson and Scotland counties. Partners in Ministry is based in Laurinburg.
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NASA: World Won't End Tomorrow
Some say the ancient Mayans predicted the world will end Dec. 21; others say you should plan on going to work Friday anyway.
It may be inevitable that one of the many doomsday predictions found in cults or New Age mythologies may actually come true, but it's probably not Friday.
Some believe that when the 5,125-year ancient Mayan calendar runs out on Dec. 21, it determines the end of the world. NASA scientists disagree.
According to the NASA website, the only thing that will happen on Dec. 21 is the winter solstice.
The website also compared the lack of dates on the Mayan calendar to the lack of dates on current calendars.
"Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar."
Of course, those screaming doomsday are getting far more attention.
The official Dec. 21, 2012 website even claims to have celebrity supporters such as Woody Harrelson, Mel Gibson, Ashton Kutcher and Shirley MacLaine.
The Dec. 21, 2012 website also alleges a galactic problem that will cause the world to end -- something the scientists at NASA refute..
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It is a count down, not a calander, and NASA knows this. The Mayans equated the next time this solarsystem would cross the solar equator. Why would the Mayans make a countdown to nothing then. If nothing is supposed to happen, then why has the govermnent been building these huge bunkers costing trillions then, and NASA is the govermnent, so why are then any credible for any infotmation told.
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9:40 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Show me were it says that the government is building trillion dollar bunkers?
J Bell
12:06 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
The government built those bunkers years ago to serve as elaborate film studios in order to create the supposed "lunar landing". HAHAHA!
Rebwar Rashidi
10:03 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
We really don't know whom to believe !!!!!
Wendy Saddler
10:42 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Mathew 24:36 and Mark 13:32 that the ONLY one who knows when the world will end is God. Let's quit trying to do His job for him, and start living according to His principals again.
Andy Fowler
11:36 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sit down.......shut up........Merry Christmas.........See y'all on Saturday!
Anthony Hembrom
11:55 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Earth will not END tommrrow.
Looks the Bible-
"Earth will END but the single word of Bible will never End."
karys brown
3:24 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tbh,I don't think the world will end,cause there would already be sighns that its ending.
Also like every year they say it will end,like last year 21st may 2011 funny how this year is 21st too? When they don't get it right they move it on. The earth will end when least expected not predicted. No one knows when it will end and also just because a myan calender ends on the 21st december doesn't mean it will end,oh well we will see:)
Mike Shortall
4:03 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
When the Government tells you there's "nothing wrong", that's when it's time to RUN!!
Just sayin' ...
5:15 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
i dont know what 2 belive im pritty worrid coz my baby boy is due on the5th ov may 2013 some one please tell me it is not true and abit ov prof please
The Illuminati
5:37 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
The world will end when its good and ready to end. This 2012 thing was a mass marketing ploy to make money. The world will still be here after tomorrow and next week and next year and the next 20 years. Relax. Sure, we will have disasters and such but the world will go on as it always has. There are going to be some real disappointed people on Saturday! This is like that Y2K crap...only worse.
The Illuminati
5:39 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Did anyone ever take into account that the Mayans didn't have leap years? This date came and passed about 6 months ago people.
European American
6:38 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Mike Shortall
10:45 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
I'm really going to be depressed if I have to go to work tomorrow.
9:32 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
I think the world will not end because people say that there is no other planet cramming for us
European American
9:16 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Hey bubba, I agree but u can't call people morons and spell it wrong. Unless u meant to spell it like that.
European American
9:16 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Hey bubba, I agree but u can't call people morons and spell it wrong. Unless u meant to spell it like that.


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