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The Mayo Clinic's Gonda Building in downtown Rochester.
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The Mayo Clinic said Thursday that it will invest $700 million a year in capital projects over the next five years, ramping up spending after cutting back when the financial crisis hit.
More than half the money will go toward projects the Rochester-based health system already has in the works, such as jump-starting a proton beam therapy program for cancer patients.
But executives said they're ready to put hundreds of millions of additional dollars into new projects, many aimed at finding ways to put promising medical breakthroughs on a fast track by channeling more people, equipment, research or technology toward the effort.
"We want to make sure we're focusing on the outputs that are most likely to transform the way health care is delivered," said Dr. John Noseworthy, Mayo's chief executive.
While $700 million is not an unprecedented amount for Mayo, a spokesman said it represents a noticeable increase over recent years, without providing precise figures.
This year, Mayo will launch $600 million in capital projects and plans to maintain annual spending levels of about $700 million through 2017.
The announcement came as Mayo posted financial results for 2011 that included an 18 percent increase in operating income, to $610.2 million. Revenue grew 7 percent to $8.5 billion.
Noseworthy said the capital investments may not go toward traditional projects such as ones Mayo has done in the past. Much of the future spending will be directed toward three new centers behind Mayo's strategy to get treatments into the hands of doctors faster.
The Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery will focus on ways to lower costs and improve treatment of diseases such as heart failure, diabetes and lung disease. The Center for Individualized Medicine will use genomics to predict, diagnose and treat diseases. The Center for Regenerative Medicine aims to find ways to reduce the need for transplants by focusing on healing damaged tissues and organs.
Mayo reported a stronger-than-average net income last year, driven by record fundraising and increases in the number of patients arriving for complex treatments. Operating margins at the non-profit typically are in the 4 to 6 percent range, according to officials, but were a little over 7 percent last year.
The organization said it treated 1 million patients from more than 135 countries at its network of hospitals and clinics, including 70 communities in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.
A $100 million donation, given in a lump sum, boosted revenue significantly. The gift by Richard Jacobson went to jump-start Mayo's proton beam therapy program, a type of cancer treatment that pinpoints radiation treatment, resulting in shorter treatments and fewer side effects.
Construction began last year on a $188 million proton beam facility in Rochester and a $182 million facility in Phoenix. The centers are expected to open in 2015 and 2016.
Other ongoing projects include a four-story expansion of Mayo's wellness center in Rochester, expanding and renovating the emergency department at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, and improving clinic sites in Austin, Minn., and Barron, Wis.
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Stephen Coco, 41, of Bedford turned himself in to Bedford police Tuesday, four days after the crash and a day after he was fired from the Manchester Police Department. By then, police had a warrant for his arrest on two class B felony counts of conduct after an accident, which carry a maximum sentence of 3 1/2 to seven years per charge.
LaFrance said investigators wanted to be certain when they sought an arrest warrant from a judge that they had the needed probable cause.
A little more than five hours after the crash, detectives had information that Coco was the man at the wheel of an SUV that hit the two teens as they walked along Harrod Drive. Investigators had matched a broken part of a plastic lens, found at the crash scene, to Coco's damaged 2007 Nissan Pathfinder that was parked in the driveway of his 29 Meadowcrest Drive home.
LaFrance explained, however, that while the part appeared to be a match to the "naked eye," that is not forensic evidence. An expert, she said, is needed at trial to show that the part came off the Nissan.
And, according to the affidavit filed in 9th Circuit Court, Merrimack District Division, Coco also denied he had driven the Nissan at all that night.
Meanwhile, Manchester police have said they have concluded an internal investigation into the hit-and-run as well as events preceding it. Coco had been visiting the Harrod Lane home of Jeff Harrington, a fellow Manchester police officer whose son suffers from leukemia.
"A large amount of information was gathered during the investigation, the scope of which encompassed the periods of time that preceded and followed the collision. The only employee misconduct identified during this investigation was on the part of Stephen Coco and based on those findings, he was terminated," said police Lt. Maureen Tessier.
LaFrance said the case is still under investigation. She said it will be prosecuted by another county attorney's office - which one has yet to be determined.
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The driver of the SUV fled the scene. Police were led to Coco's home after Hickman told them he and Drukker saw the SUV leave a nearby home, which turned out to be Harrington's residence.
Later on Saturday, investigators impounded the SUV, which was an undercover vehicle assigned to Coco as a sergeant in the Special Investigations Unit at the Manchester Police Department. They obtained a warrant to search it and found fresh damage to its front, numerous indentations in the front hood on the driver's side and fabric impressions on the front bumper consistent with the clothes Drukker had on when he was hit, according to the affidavit.
Coco is free on $20,000 personal recognizance bail, pending a probable cause hearing set for April 16.
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hasnt this been hashed out in other threads?
they separate PvP and PvE balances.
There has been pretty convincing proof that given regular blizzard instance design, a certain tank class, the DK is just plain better than other classes for progression content, and that is ultimately the best choice of tank.
Previously, arguably warriors were the best choice of progression tank, with caveats, but there was a niche for other tanks, like paladins and feral tanks. AOE tanking was the purview of Paladins and ferals were the best choice for bosses with consistent and huge melee hits, and theoretically magic damage soaks.
Blizzard has a new favorite progression tank. The Death Knight. The best parry/dodge avoidance. The best armor. The best effective health. The best cooldowns (even after the glyph buffs of 3.1.)
I don't begrudge another class having a strong ability... after all I have a different ability, along with warriors. A shield... however a shield is not "different yet equal". On trash, sure... its a little better for us than DKs... but seriously who worries about trash?
So... we say... make shield abilities better. Give shields a multiple of block value in direct reduction of magic abilities.... thus we'd pit better cooldowns vs flat consistent reduction. Different yet equal, and you could thus design different encounters where regular but consistent damage and extraordinary but cooldowned damage would not give only one tank type an exceptional advantage.
Why can't we do this? PvP. Can't do flat blockvalue multiple reduction of magic damage... even as deep prot... because it would tip the balance of PvP... given that Blizzard has actually given prot some dps... and a high BV equating to high shield slams/SotR AND magic reduction would be viewed as imba.
Why are we allowing PvP to limit new options for PvE raiding after all this time? Its been years of this, after all.
My plea... give a raidwide debuff from new/future raid bosses, "Valorous Presence" (merely an illustrative name,) that modifies base skills and talents to give more, less or entirely different advantages.
They should be as minimal changes as possible... only enough to give different challenges and solutions to raiding (like for example changing PvE raid healing regen without changing up mana regen everywhere else.)
Thoughts? Comments?
hasnt this been hashed out in other threads?
I've been reading a lot of threads about this, and while there has been talk of
1) DK's being the best progression tank
2) There needing to be an alternative mechanic to avoid homogenization and give a real "different yet equal" solution
and 3) PvP is the reason why they won't
as far as I've seen there hasn't been a 4) We have to decouple PvP and PvE changes
There's an easy solution to PVP affecting PVE. Other MMOs have done it - vs PVP flagged targets, abilities have alternate versions that do reduced damage/reduced effects/different effects.
Wow already does this in that CC abilities have reduced PVP duration.
It's something that's really easy to fix that they have no intention of doing because they aren't convinced it's broken in the first place.
Regarding the "not convinced its broken". In WoW, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Eventually. The designers do respond to player demand eventually, because at this point in the design cycle they are more concerned about player retention than design consistency.
Perhaps they simply don't believe there is demand for differing standards in PvP and PvE... which I believe would allow for much better encounter design, and entirely less whining by PvP'ers when there is a change for PvE reasons.
You've mentioned that other games do this. Do you personally believe that WoW should? Do you think approaching this from a PvP flagged viewpoint is better than a raid boss debuff viewpoint? I favor the latter, because you could restrict it to newer raid bosses, and resistrict the possibility of exploiting old raid bosses by new mechanics for easy gold farms.. requiring less work fixing those, and so on.
I wish it was a difference. I think it would allow changes to be made for either section of the game. But Blizzard has said they aren't for separation so what can we do?
The ~only~ way you can implement this is to utilize PVP flagged recipients. Lest you destroy your game by having "some bosses that you can do alot of DPS to" and "the rest you can barely scratch" and the determining factor is "is this boss/trash PVE flagged?"
It's just backwards.
I also believe PVP damage and healing needs to be retuned such that a 1 v 1 match between skilled, geared players lasts as long as the average raidboss. I see no reason at all for resilience itemization if you properly utilize "PVP ability" differences.
The problem is that this will either take a lot of the skill out of PvP, or make PvP a matter of being perfect (a single mistake = death). The middle ground shrinks with that long of a timeframe.I also believe PVP damage and healing needs to be retuned such that a 1 v 1 match between skilled, geared players lasts as long as the average raidboss.
done properly it makes the match hang on skill - over a minute and a half to two minutes there's alot to be gained by good positional play, use of cooldowns and burst damage.
Re-introduce crushing blows on new Raid Bosses, only tone it down so it doesn't cripple tanks that can't block. And change Shield Block back to how it was so blocking becomes more integral to tanking.
So while the Death Knight and Druid has higher HP, they'll suffer crushing blows again (only not as harsh as during BC), and the Paladins and Warriors get to close the gap again with their ability to block.
So then people refuse to take druids/death knights because they will be hit harder.....
I guess you didn't understand my suggestion.
TONE DOWN crushing blow. So it only adds about 10% damage or so. Death Knights and Druids will still have superior armour and avoidance, as well as more hp, so it would still be more or less the same damage intake.
Durandro - The problem with the very notion of crushing blows is the mana/damage ratio.
People would not use Druid/DK tanks because they'd be "mana sponges" (I've already heard of people snubbing druids because their low avoidance makes them "mana sponges" now.) blizzard is actively rebalancing HP levels and mitigation levels to normalize the classes, we don't need to complicate things by adding an extra step that would largely cause the theorycrafting community to snub half of the tank classes in the game. >_>;
Personally I don't see it. If they still take more or less the same damage, then they require the same amount of healing.
And as it is right now, Warriors and Paladins are getting snubbed for MT role over DK's. Closing the gap won't flip it on its head, it'll just mean they aren't the automatic choice anymore.
No. You are confused sir. Druids and DKs are getting the MT roles due to fights like Sarth + drakes and Maly. It's a question of the type of encounter, not the class. When the last two encounters progression wise (and the ones that give the best loot) are bosses that do shit tons of damage with one ability (magic damage at that!) then a tank that can take the hit is needed, a tank with shit tons of health. If ole Patchy was the top of the progression tree, then I'm sure the qqing would be reversed (and I do call it qqing, our warrior and paladin MTs have tanked everything except sarth + 3d, which we have yet to accomplish).
Just my 2 cents.
Told you so.
Not saying it's an intellect reason for being snubbed. But it still happens.
So would taking 10% extra physical damage really be class destroying?
What I would consider for change in a PvE Raiding specific buff (as I mentioned for new and future content only,) would be damage reduction abilities to make tanking classes more equivalent... thus making it about the player, not the class.
If you did make changes (and roll back the unbalanced ones) for PvP then the changes you made for raiding and regular play would change old content in a way that may cause some work for Blizzard.
As for 1v1 pvp duration, I tend to agree. DPS numbers have and continue to increase with time. Relative stamina has not increased at the same pace, thus making for a feeling of "I got hosed" in PvP.
The issue with crushes is not the tank, but a feeling of RNG unfairness to healers.
for the people on this forum, it really doesnt seem that hard to get a more streamline tanking approach but it obviously is for blizzard.
I hope they listen and take on board some of the things discussed on this forum especially the detailed discussions regarding heroic strike and effective health which were spot on.


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My 15 year old son went to the doctor for dizziness. He had blood drawn and the next thing I knew, because of his high bilirubin levels, he was sent for an ultrasound. A mass was found and at first the radiologist said it was an adenoma, but the next group of doctors that read the mri he had next said it was focal nodular hyperplasia.
In talking with the surgeon, he suggested it be removed because of the uncertainty of what it was, but when we got to the hospital my son was afraid and did not want to have the surgery. He just wanted to wait and watch it. I asked the nurses just to give him a sedative until the surgery and they asked him and he said no, that he wanted to talk to the doctor.
Long story short, they decided not to remove it despite my insistence. When did they start listening to a 15 year old and not to the parent? There is no family history of this and I wanted it out because that same surgeon told me there was no way to tell 100 percent what it was without taking it out!


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This is one of the more obscure Twitter wars in recent memory.
A week after lashing out for receiving death threats on the social network, Miley Cyrus is once again at the center of a controversy - and it all has to do with theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss.
The singer/actress posted the above photo of Krauss on her account last night, including a passage that partly reads:
You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, all the things that matter for evolution) weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in stars. So forget Jesus. Stars died so you can live.
Many followers proceeded to take exception to the whole "forget Jesus" thing, with one follower writing to Miley: "You seriously believe that crap? It's so ridiculously stupid. Go to hell."
There's someone who clearly follows the teachings of Jesus well, huh?
This isn't the first time Cyrus has upset her Christian followers. The young star is an outspoken advocate of gay marriage, penning an op-ed on the topic last month and receiving a lot of criticism for her views.
i find it humorous that people are calling evolution a "fairy tale" when it has more compelling scientific evidence than the ancient tale of a man in the sky creating everything in the universe in a week.
@Ken: Perhaps you shouldn't take so seriously the teachings of a centuries-old religious book? Just a suggestion.
Miley is quoting evolutionists beliefs. She is not correct. Evolutionary thinking is just belief in made up fairy tales. Upon reading the Real truth found in the Bible, she would know everything was made by God, the Creator. Jesus, God's son died for Miley. If she believes in Jesus and how he rose from the dead to save her from her sins, Miley will go to be in Heaven upon her death. Fools despise their own souls by caring for their bodies instead of their souls.
CALM DOWN. Let Miley believe what she wants to! You people make me sick when you comment on here hating on somebody for having a belief or opinon. You people who are commenting rude things, you guys arent Christians acting like that, go back to church. And Christians arent agaisnt gays!
Some of these so called "Christians" have posted the most judgmental and ugly comments. Miley is young and she is probably questioning her beliefs which I believe everyone should do. This can only make your faith stronger or become your true self. In my 20's I questioned what my church actually believed and I studied other religions and I decided organized religion was not for me. Too many man made rules and not enough spirituality. Ugly Ugly comments do not convince me that I would want to be at your church ever!
she is entitled to her opinions. but just keep them within friends familys coworkers. if she was claiming that she was a christian for the longest time. and used that to back up some of her scandals. heck yes some people will be upset. i said this before and ill say it again. celebrities should not talk about politics and religion. talk about it with a friend if they must. because you are bound to piss off one group of people. and what miley did here may have been the breaking point for some people.
No REAL Christian would say this: [Someone- "wat the hell is her problem??? she should noe dat wit out Jesus, she wouldn't be here today...and to be honest, if i were God, i would make her suffer until she feels what jesus went dru and ask for forgiveness...fuck her to damnation!!!!"] and THIS is certainly not very Christian [sarah- "@miley oh just shut u bitch
i believe in christanity
jesus is everywhere
what hell are you talking about
just go to hell
u dont have any sense...
u r talking like a bitch
i swear...i hate u so much from now"] and to top it all off neither make any sense because the only thing Miley said was "Beautiful" if you have a problem with anything after that the person you should be bitching at is Lawrence Krauss. Every person's vision of beauty is different and no one has the right to say that someone's opinion of what is beautiful is wrong. Don't we have more important things to worry about than what a 19 year old girl puts on twitter.
Who cares what religion she is, she's a person and who cares if she supports something ou dont she's a person and has her own beliefs!!!
Who gives a shit. There is such a thing as freedom of speech. I am an atheist, so I agree with her. Don't crucify Myley because she expressing an opinion. You are all so fucking uptight. Get over yourselves!!!


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Electric stoves tend to retain heat for a longer time after the burner has been turned down or off. This makes delicate cooking a problem. But baking is more even and roasting is more optimal with an electric stove.
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Due to the accuracy in temperature control, gas stoves are widely preferred by chefs. A gas stove which uses electronic ignition instead of a pilot light uses 30% less gas and is more cost efficient than an electric stove.
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I recently bought a second-generation iPod touch that has Bluetooth capabilities. I have tried but failed to pair the iPod touch Bluetooth with any of the Bluetooth headpieces used for cell phones. I realize the iPod touch can output in stereo but I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts. A monaural sound output would be fine with me. But the 3-4 earpieces I have tried will not work. Why not?
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Unfortunately, Bluetooth headsets made for cellular headset/handsfree audio are not compatible with the iPod touch.
Support for different Bluetooth devices and features is determined by the Bluetooth "profiles" that are available on the devices. A Bluetooth profile defines the capabilities of a device and how it communicates with other Bluetooth devices. For Bluetooth communication to occur between two devices, they must both support the same Bluetooth profile.
There are three Bluetooth profiles that are commonly used for Bluetooth audio communication. The first two, "Headset" and "Handsfree" are intended for two-way monaural audio between a headset device and a cellular phone, and are the profiles used for cellular phones and cellular phone Bluetooth headsets. The "A2DP" profile is designed to provide one-way stereo audio from your device to a set of earphones for the purpose of listening to music playback.
All models and previous firmware versions of the iPhone provide support for the Headset and Handsfree profiles for using a Bluetooth headset for phone calls. However, this capability is limited to phone-related audio; you cannot stream your iPod playback, even monaurally, to a Bluetooth headset.
The iPhone 3.0 OS has added the A2DP profile to the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 2G, so that you can now associate an A2DP device with your iPhone or iPod to listen to your music and other audio playback. The catch, however, is that since the iPod touch does not have a phone component, there is no need for it to support the Headset/Handsfree profiles, since these are not designed for audio playback but rather voice communications. Further, even on the iPhone a Headset/Handsfree Bluetooth device can only be used for phone-related audio such as phone calls and Visual Voicemail.
Almost all phone Bluetooth headsets use the "Headset" and/or "Handsfree" profiles, which the iPod touch does not support. In order to use a Bluetooth headset with your iPod touch, you will need to find a headset that specifically supports the A2DP profile, almost all of which are stereo headphone accessories designed for listening to music.
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Christian Ponder will face competition this off-season, it's just who will it be? One name being kicked around is Kansas City quarterback Matt Cassel. He's a legitimate option as he'll become a free agent and the Vikings wouldn't have to give a draft pick for him, and though a woeful year in 2012, he still has some upside. The sayings, "He's neither as good or bad applies to Cassel. He was able to take the Chiefs to the playoffs in 2010 and led the 2008 New England Patriots to an 11-5 record. In January 2011, Cassel was named as an alternate to the Pro Bowl in place of an injured Tom Brady. However, the past two seasons has been disastrous for Cassel, and the recent acquisition of Alex Smith has his days numbered in Kansas City. According to Chris Wesseling of NFL.com, the Viking would be a good fit and would provide the type of competition to push incumbent Ponder to have to hustle to keep his job. Wesseling writes: 'Wesseling cautions not to rule out the Vikings as competition for Cassel's services. Although head coach Leslie Frazier has maintained that Christian Ponder is his quarterback, the Vikings are on the lookout for a veteran to "teach" and "push" the young starter.' var switchTo5x=true; stLight.options({publisher:''});
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Title: Puff, puff, chugga-chugga
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28 workers at the Lordstown, Ohio Chevrolet plant are suing General Motors and the UAW after they claim they were wrongfully classified as temporary employees. According to the workers' complaint, they were paid 40 percent less than their permanent counterparts. The suit also accuses UAW Local 1112 of ignoring their complaints and refusing to go to bat for them.
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Mark Williams, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for Tom Green County shared his insights into what is influencing kids to break the law yesterday at the San Angelo Rotary Club.
He broke away from what he called his standard speech about juvenile delinquency and gave a full-throated denunciation of the culture that is maligning the current generation of children.
Through his court-appointed position over the past 28 years, Williams has seen children in Tom Green County from their tweens to near adulthood at their worst. He touched on single parenthood, and co-dependency. "Some of these mothers are as immature and unprepared to raise a child as their children are," he said.
Broken homes and broken families in Tom Green County create a void of positive role models for many children, Williams said. And today's sex-filled violent culture is willing and ready to fulfill the wants, needs and desires of area youth absent of family role models.
"The kids that come to us [do so] because they don't have enough self-confidence, and something or somebody's negatively influenced them." The kids are easily influenced by negative aspects of our culture because, "they need to feel better about themselves," Williams said.
Speaking his mind while offering an informed opinion as a juvenile probation officer, Williams said that rap music and violent video games are not the same music and entertainment the middle-aged audience at Rotary grew up with.
"I get to see kids who've committed horrible crimes and I get to see them in some really ugly situations," Williams said. "And it's getting scarier over the years. My first case when I became a probation officer was a bicycle theft."
More recently Williams said, he handled a lengthy murder case."Rap music used to be the subject of my soapbox speech until I found out what's in today's video games," Williams said. "In my position I think I know what's happening in the minds of our youth, and then I get exposed to more things reaching them and it just blows me away."
"Rap music is all about hate, violence, total disrespect for women, sexual promiscuity… We just let this happen. We idolize these people [rap musicians]. But these kids I see, they really idolize these people," Williams said. "They listen to that stuff [rap music] and there's no doubt in my mind that it has an influence on their lives."
More ominous than the rap music genre, Williams said, is the content in today's video games.
Gone are the days of the cute "Mario Brothers Double Dash" or "The Legend of Zelda" that the 30- and 40-somethings remember. Today's first person "shooter" games are desensitizing modern youth to sex, killing and rampant violence, said Williams.
"As the body becomes physiologically accustomed to a little lift from a gateway drug, the person graduates to harder drugs," Williams said, "I see video games as something where once the thrill of playing a video game is gone, what's the next step?"
Real life, Williams believes.
This is particularly true for youth who have a family situation that provides no support, nor satisfies a child's self esteem.
Williams then spoke very specifically about titles of video games that he said most parents do not know the content, but should. "I'm not trying to be provocative, but it's important that parents know what their kids are spending hours upon hours per week playing," Williams said.
Here are the video games Williams said are wildly popular with today's youth. We have included YouTube.com video embeds of examples of the content that Williams warned about. The content of these videos is graphically violent and contains mature subject matter.
"I'm not trying to offend you, but I want to be very honest about what's out there," he said.Williams outlined four examples of popular games to illustrate his point. They are (warning, they're graphic):
Mortal Kombat. "It's about 'fighting you the death.' It's listed in the category of having the top ten best gore effects in gaming. It shows what happens to the human body while the body is being injured or dismembered." Here's a compilation of dismemberment scenes from Mortal Kombat 9 (this YouTube.com video has 1.3 million views).
Call of Duty. "In the 2009 version, the main character gets involved with terrorists and they go into an airport and just mow down all the people in the airport. Does that sound familiar?" Williams asked.
Postal 2. "Now, Postal 3 is just about to come on in a few weeks. One of the things in this game that is just bizarre is that they have you use a real, live cat as a silencer on your weapon… In one scenario of this game, I find a building full of people, I pour a can of gas all over the place, and people start running as screaming as I light them on fire. As the people are burned more, they fall to the ground and look like crispy critters. The character you're operating then unzips his pants, and urinates on the bodies. That doesn't kill the victim, so as a final act, you take a shovel and hit them on the head until the victim's dead." Here's 100 ways to kill people in Postal 2 (graphic).
Grand Theft Auto 5 (or GTA 5). "The whole focus of the game is stealing vehicles. But it's not only about stealing vehicles. If you want to, part of the game play scenarios contain the opportunity to go to a strip club and get a lap dance. And these games are not cartoons. The computer-animated characters almost look like real people in movies," Williams said, suggesting that the realism is very sexually arousing to many, especially teenaged males. "Every successive version of GTA gets more and more like real life," Williams stressed. If getting lap dances is lame, you think, other scenarios in GTA allow the player to hire a prostitute, and if you don't have the money to pay her, you can just kill her instead, Williams said. Here is a "How To" video on how to "effectively kill prostitutes" in GTA 5.
"This is what our kids are getting exposed to," Williams said. "And you can see the results of this on our streets even here in San Angelo every day."
Williams noted that the counter arguments to his observations are that these games are only fantasy, and opponents of video game censorship will cite study after study that violence in video games does not translate into violence in real life.
"There's a juvenile case headed through our local courts right now. The defense lawyer's argument is based upon the fact that the kid was unduly influenced by violent video games," Williams concluded.
Williams urged parents to investigate what their kids are being exposed to on their gaming consoles.
After hearing Williams speak, I went home and looked through my 17-year-old son's video game collection. In it, I found Grand Theft Auto 5.


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HAMADA, Japan The Hamada Marine Bridge soars majestically over this small fishing harbor, so much larger than the squid boats anchored below that it seems out of place.
And it is not just the bridge. Two decades of generous public-works spending have showered this city of 61,000 mostly graying residents with a highway, a two-lane bypass, a university, a prison, a children's art museum, the Sun Village Hamada sports center, a bright-red welcome center, a ski resort and an aquarium featuring three ring-blowing Beluga whales.
Nor is this remote port in western Japan unusual. Japan's rural areas have been paved over and filled in with roads, dams and other big infrastructure projects – the legacy of trillions of dollars spent to lift the economy from a severe downturn caused by the bursting of a real estate bubble in the late 1980s.
During those nearly two decades, Japan accumulated the largest public debt in the developed world – totaling 180 percent of its $5.5 trillion economy – while failing to generate a convincing recovery.
Now, as the administration of President Barack Obama embarks on a similar path – proposing to spend more than $820 billion to stimulate the sagging U.S. economy – many economists are taking a fresh look at Japan's experience.
Although Japan is not exactly comparable to the United States – especially as a late developer with a history of heavy state investment in infrastructure – economists say it can still offer important lessons about the pitfalls, and chances for success, of a stimulus package.
Japan's experience suggests that infrastructure spending, while a blunt instrument, can help revive a developed economy, say many economists and one important U.S. official: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was a financial attache in Japan during the collapse and subsequent doldrums.
One lesson Geithner has said he took away from that experience is that spending must come in quick, massive doses, and be continued until recovery takes firm root.
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In the United States, it also has led to calls in Congress, particularly by Republicans, not to repeat the errors of Japan's failed economic stimulus. They argue that it makes more sense to cut taxes, and let people decide how to spend their own money, than for the government to decide how to invest public funds. Japan put more emphasis on increased spending than tax cuts during its long slump, but ultimately did reduce consumption taxes to encourage consumer spending as well.


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Bischoff starts off the show and what a great matchup he makes. He allows Mysterio and Carlito to get their hands on one another, before their All-American Title match next week. Good stuff. And with the RVD-Hogan team, I'm kinda expecting a run in from Matt Bloom. And there definetly be now, Bischoff is the ref.
The Jillian bit did what it was suppose to do, hyping the Tag Title match for EE. The Basham Brotherstake on Matt Sydal and Scott Taylor. I'm sure the Bashams would dominate, but man was I wrong. And I liked the video distraction from the Invaders. With the upset loss, this solidifies the Bashams, IMO as Global Tag Champs next week.
Mysterio and Carlito exchange some words hyping both the Tag match for tonight, and the ladder match next week. Nothing special, it just got to the point.
I'm actually digging this Waltman/Doane combo you got going. It gives them both something good to do. Waltman helped Doane to gain the cheap victory, this was a good move, showing Waltman is serious, for now, to be Doane's mentor.
The Hogan interview was written well. You really nail all these character good, and add more to each one. Anyway Hogan and RVD seem to be on the same side, shaking hands and all. But you know they will be wary teaming up since they are oppenents next week.
Can't wait to see The Divine One!
A greatly written main event match. What a fiasco it turned out to be with Bloom interfering, Bischoff non-refereeing, and Van Dam proving he will do anything to win the Title next week at EE. I don't quiet think he turned heel, he just wanted to prove some things.
Overall, great show once again. Really cannot wait to see the big 2 hour spectacular, EE next week. Good job man.
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