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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Shelby Key (Harford CC, Md.), Courtney Murphy (Oakland CC, Mich.) and Rebekah Aase (Riverland CC, Minn.) have been named NJCAA women's basketball players of the week for games up to Nov. 11.
Excelling on both ends of the floor, Key's versatility spurred the Fighting Owls on to three victories last week. Routing all three opponents, Harford benefited from Key's efficient shooting, court vision and relentless defensive pressure. The sophomore averaged 19.3 points, 8.3 assists and 7.7 steals per game on the week. Key's top performance came in a 113-35 blowout of Atlantic Cape CC (N.J.) where she totaled 27 points, 13 assists and 11 steals for a triple-double.
Murphy led the Raiders offensively last week with an outstanding effort against Grand Rapids CC (Mich.). The freshman scored 32 points on 11-of-16 shooting, knocking down all four of her three-point attempts. Murphy added six rebounds, five assists and four steals as the Raiders edged out a 79-77 victory.
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Croatia to beat Ireland 1-0 Jelavic.
Croatia to beat Ireland 1-0 Jelavic.
The introduction of Navas was just as important as bringing on Torres though, having a genuine wide player really helped.
Anyway thought it was an excellent game, by far the best in terms of quality we have had so far.
This next game certainly not going to match it, I know Ireland are generally likeable and all but for entertainments sake I hope they make an early exit
Feck me, keeper should not be beaten by a looping header from 12 yards out.
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That's a joke. Corluka's won the ball. Might as well not bother with tackles if that's a foul.
Ref is soft
yeah, suspect Ashley Young would enjoy having this referee. Blows up for anything.
Atrocious defending
Jelavic is class though.
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Judge denies that "electronic presence" via texting is enough to hold woman accountable for motor vehicle accident
A woman who repeatedly texted her boyfriend, while she knew he was driving, and who ultimately crossed traffic and crashed into motorcyclists, cannot be added to a civil lawsuit according to a Superior Court judge in Morristown, New Jersey.
The plaintiffs' lawyer argued that the girlfriend's conduct contributed to the accident that cost his clients their legs. The woman's lawyer argued that while she sent the messages, it was ultimately her boyfriend's responsibility to control when he looked at them and when he responded to them.
The boyfriend plead guilty to three violations of the motor vehicle code, including driving while using a mobile device. He's now being sued in civil court.
Skippy Weinstein, the Kuberts' lawyer, argues Colonna was "electronically present" in the crash. He says she should have known Best was driving home as they exchanged text messages leading up to the crash. She says she "may have known" he was driving.
"What I find interesting was her testimony at depositions was that she answered by saying, 'This is what teenagers do,'" Weinstein said.
The judge disagreed. This time. But the term "electronically present" is going to be something interesting to watch in the coming years.
Can you be "electronically present" at an accident? At a robbery? At a homicide? During civil disobedience? As a witness?
We've often discussed how our devices know who we are, where we are, and often what we're doing. They allow us to communicate almost instantly from across the room or halfway around the world. You can text significant others, FaceTime grandparents, Skype colleagues.
How soon will it be before that technology becomes par for the course in civil and criminal matters?
This week, in New Jersey, a judged ruled a woman couldn't be sued for texting her boyfriend while she new he was driving, and when he ultimately drove his truck into two motorcyclists, What about in the months and years ahead? How long until the law and technology becomes such that "electronically present" is held as the equivalent to "physically present"?
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Judge denies that "electronic presence" via texting is enough to hold woman accountable for motor vehicle accident
Renee, electronic presence won't be treated like physical presence until e-presence is the same thing. When your e-presence can interact physically with the remote place, then you may face liability. but the claim that the texter was liable for an accident was just laughable because there are too many factors in the chain of causation that basically insulate the texter from being liable for the accident. The driver made 100% of the decisions that led to the accident. That, for better or worse is the proper defendant.


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The $2.3 billion collapse of the homegrown Spokane financial conglomerate ranks as the largest business failure in Spokane history.
The bankruptcy begun in February 2004 was marred from the outset by an accounting scandal, a major investigation by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, an FBI inquiry that resulted in the conviction of a senior Metropolitan executive, receivership actions by insurance regulators in three states, numerous lawsuits including an investor class action, arbitration cases and a tangle of claims and insider business dealings.
The millions of dollars spent on high-stakes litigation and experts attempting to unravel Metropolitan's flawed transactions and financial records unfolded against this backdrop: Most of Metropolitan's 16,000 investors were older residents living across the Northwest. Many had invested their life's savings in a company that once claimed its unsecured corporate bonds were as safe as certified deposits from banks.
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Settlement squeezes out a bit more Met money
May 23, 2010 in City on Page E1 C. Paul Sandifur Jr., the former chairman and chief executive officer of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., will pay $23,000 to investors in the bankrupt company as part of a … 1
New settlement in Met suit
Feb. 24, 2010 in City on Page A1 A $38 million settlement proposed Tuesday in the Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. class action lawsuit would help several thousand investors recoup some losses from Spokane's largest business collapse. Investors … 1
Met Mortgage creditors get 2 more cents on the dollar
Dec. 13, 2009 in City on Page B1 More checks are in the mail for creditors of bankrupt Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. This third round of partial payouts splits about $10.4 million among 15,500 people who held …
Amid cleanup dispute, project could have new developer
Aug. 19, 2009 in City on Page A1 An $8 million legal dispute has erupted over the bill to clean up pollutants at Kendall Yards, the stalled housing and business project along the north bank of the Spokane … 1
Ex-Met officer has filed Chapter 7 papers
June 26, 2009 in Business on Page A12 Thomas Masters, a former Metropolitan Mortgage and Securities Co. executive implicated in one of the fraudulent real estate schemes that unraveled the firm, has filed a $26 million personal bankruptcy …
Sandifur to pay $150,000 settlement
Dec. 16, 2008 in Business, City C. Paul Sandifur, the former chief executive officer of bankrupt Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., will pay $150,000 to refund investors and settle allegations that he improperly paid himself dividends … 2
Met class action suit advances
Dec. 16, 2008 in Business, City A class action lawsuit involving more than 6,000 Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. investors is moving toward trial in 15 months.
Met investors to get $45 million
July 27, 2008 in City on Page B1 About $45 million is set to be distributed to investors of Metropolitan Mortgage and Securities Inc. at the end of next week. It will be the second repayment following the … 1
Second Met payout planned
June 20, 2008 in Business, City A long-awaited cash distribution to investors of bankrupt Metropolitan Mortgage and Securities will be mailed in late July.
Met's insurance affiliate sold
June 6, 2008 in Business on Page A10 Another chapter of the Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. debacle nearly closed Thursday as the state receiver sold the defunct company's largest asset – insurance affiliate Western United Life Assurance …
Court approves sale of Met affiliate
May 3, 2008 in City on Page B1 A $55 million deal to sell a Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. insurance affiliate received court approval Friday. It remains unknown how much cash from the sale of Western United …
Met insurance deal struck
April 8, 2008 in City on Page A8 Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has struck a $52 million deal to sell the key insurance affiliate of bankrupted Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Inc. The agreement, pending court approval, would end …
Creditors want control of Met affiliate
March 14, 2008 in City on Page B1 Saying the state has mismanaged a former insurance affiliate of bankrupt Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., creditors have asked a judge to force Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to relinquish …
Met trust and accounting firm settle
March 2, 2008 in City on Page A1 The Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. investors' trust has reached a settlement agreement of about $30 million with an accounting firm accused of making mistakes that led to the company's …
CEO's ex-wife to pay $325,000 settlement
March 2, 2008 in City on Page A8 Helen Sandifur, the ex-wife of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.'s chief executive, will pay $325,000 into a special trust to refund investors in the bankrupted company under a settlement disclosed …
Met investors win key reversal
Feb. 6, 2008 in City on Page B1 Burned Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. investors will have their day in court against a big auditing firm they accuse of professional negligence. They have a shot at a potential …
Met investors' hopes fade
Jan. 31, 2008 in City on Page B3 Some legal efforts to win money from deep-pocketed companies that audited Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. are failing, potentially dashing the hopes of thousands of investors who looked to those …
Business in brief: SEC, Met Mortgage settlements approved
Dec. 6, 2007 in Business on Page A13 A federal judge has approved settlements between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and several Metropolitan Mortgage and Securities Co. figures, ending the agency's sprawling legal action. C. Paul Sandifur …
Sandifur, SEC settle
Oct. 30, 2007 in Business on Page A1 Disgraced Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. figure C. Paul Sandifur Jr. will pay about $151,000 to settle allegations that he masterminded fraudulent commercial real estate deals that backfired into an …
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The Topspin Tornados won the 10U division at the Junior Team Tennis South Carolina Championships held in Florence July 19-21.
The Pinewood Preparatory School team accumulated 142 points during the tournament to claim the state championship over second place Cobblestone Tennis Club, which finished with 132 points. The Tornados only lost two matches during the weekend while winning 17.
Team members are Victoria Vietri, Jessica Osborne, Reagan Walker, Mackenzie Penton, Rahi Gajjar, Spicer Pagan, Ethan Warner and Edward Naval. The team is coached by Bryant McKee and John Penton.
Reagan Walker was named the Sportsmanship winner for the Tornados, which won the Summerville JTT league to advance to the State Tournament. The team will now play in the Southern Sectional tournament in Auburn, Ala. on Aug. 16-18 against teams from nine other Southern States.
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The Woodlands' Terminetters from Columbia won the 12U division with 172 points while the Orange Crush finished second with 142 points.
Team members for the Crush are Arianna Brim, Natalie Blatner, Lizzie Naval, Ben Diffley, Grayson Mann and McGregor Mann. The team is coached by Jun Naval and Melissa Naval. Grayson Mann was the Sportsmanship Winner for the Orange Crush.
The Topspin Tsunamis were the youngest team in the 12U division as most of the team's players still qualify to play in the 10U division but chose to play up. The Tsunamis placed fourth with 133 points and won 3 of 5 matches.
Team members are Ellie Rodgers, Hannah Jeffrey, Annelise Pagan, Hannah McKee, Patrick Sott, Canon McConnell, Ethan Baly and Jay Diffley. The team is coached by Bryant McKee and Jun Naval. The Tsunamis won the State Tournament Spirit Award and both McConnell and Hannah McKee won a Sportsmanship Award.
"It was a great weekend for Summerville's Tennis Teams," Pinewood Tennis Director Bryant McKee said, "I am so proud of everyone who participated. All of the children played some of the best tennis I have seen them play and they all had a great weekend. I am looking forward to more State titles in the future and I am so excited for the 10U team. Thank you to all the parents for all their support."
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Nealey great sketch of the paint cans. There was alot going on in that pic and you captured it well with one color.
Sarah what a beautiful pendant. Your painting shows how delicate it is.
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Nealey, Glad you are feeling better and joining in again. This is another good sketch of the paint cans. It is quite a complicated set up and you have is all. the top can does look a bit precarious though! Look forward to seeing your WC.
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Jen C & C's always welcome
Well it was a wet gloomy afternoon so I painted this little wc of the Robin. I made the painting more Spring like. He is gathering bits for his nest. I didn't really do him justice and WC is not a medium I like to do but it is all I had at the house.. It is 5x7. It turned into a beautiful sunny evening.
Jen your watercolor of the robin looks great. I like your background and the robin is really well done
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I posted the painting and all the writing went away,grrrrr
So here we go again:
Sarah lovely pendant, I have seen something like this before, I think
my russian aunt had something that looked like this. It's a lovely
painting of both sites. I believe I missed your lamb last time I posted.
Love the soft pastell colours. Our neibour has a lot of lambs now too.
Thunk, welcome and your little lamb scetch is nicely done. Hope to see more of your work here.
Nealey, good to see you back and your style of painting. So much going on , love it!!!
Jen your robin with the worm is beautiful.
I finished my old farm house with chicks today. It was hard to find the time, so I#m happy that is finished.
It's encaustic on wood 70x50cm
Thank you to SARAH, KAREN, JEN & CLAUDIA for your comments on my paint can sketch. The WC is NOT doing as well so far...
Sarah ~ Thanks for sharing your drawing of your porcelain egg. The object must be a beauty.
Jen ~ Good depiction of the robin with the worm. I maybe would have cropped it some? The first day our robins came back, it snowed & they had a hard time scrabbling around for food!
Claudia ~ The farm with chickens is a lovely portrayal of a moment in time. I see a resemblance with your self portrait - is it you?
Comments and critiques are welcome.
Claudia, great painting of the girl with the chicken. Now is she taking it for Sunday dinner or giving it a hug? :) I love the houses in the back so different from the ones here.
Karen, Nealey and Claudia, thank you for the nice words about my Robin. Yes I thought afterwards it would have looked better cropped but as it is only 5x 7 it would make it very small!
Claudia a great scene and very well done painting. It looks likes such a wonderful place to be.
Hello Claudia,
I prefer the lower half of the painting cropped just above the ground floor window. The pargetting pattern is, to my eye, competing too much with the 'story' depicted in the middle/foreground
Is it your niece holding the hen(s)? the hens legs/feet maybe could be less straight? The ground, fence and hedges are really well painted. Interesting subject.
feel free to make constructive c/c...no digital alterations please
Well another day and another critter!
I looked through pictures of rabbits and ended up doing a bit of a character rather than a real bunny! I am not a skilled realist! I was going to give her a hat but she was already front heavy so ended up with a ribbon. Some of her weight will end up on the basket but the wedge is holding her at the moment. I will probably do more details and maybe do a better coil basket. Hopefully the handle will hold up when it is a bit dryer.
Jen. with the brown clay it looks like a chocolate bunny, yummy, and it has the same nice , happy face like all the easter bunnys. So cute.
Thank you for the comments on my chicken painting. Yes, the girl looks a bit like my avatar and like my niece, wasn't on purpose. The reference photo I The girl didn't fit the style. So the resemblance is there.
Sarah, about the distracting part, I want to do more houses like this. All the houses are torn down and I have a series of photos that I wanted to paint in that manner. Idea was in the foreground people ( Doing something that connects with the age of the house)and the house in the background.
Jen I'm so glad you had enough clay to do the bunny. He is so whimsical. Can't wait to see him finished.
My second oil painting workshop last night. It is very informal. Our instructor wants us to go on our own then will help with suggestions where needed. He had me start with the underpainting just to work out the painting. He wants each of us to devolpe our own style.
Here is last nights work. All work was done in the background trees.
Karen, you are making good progress with your painting. I am glad you settled that the teacher was fine with you progressing on your own I think it is going to be a beautiful painting with that bright light filtering through. I hope you are learning new skills although you are already a very accomplished painter, we are always learning.
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DayZ is NOT a game for people that want to play without hackers. I am not talking about aim bots and esp but any script kiddie with a free hack can nuke a server and destroy all the hard work that legitimate players have done.
I have had the displeasure of hosting a DayZ server for a month and have gotten over 5000 unique players, averaging over 35 at a time playing on server. Our servers were running Battleye anti cheat, Gotcha which recently got shut down since they were attacked by hackers, The silent warrior anti hack , server controle panel with interactive mapping and 5 active admins using Dart Rcon tool.
It is impossible to stop script kiddies from injecting what ever they want into your server and taking it over or nuking it when ever they get upset. Banning them does Nothing, they jump on skype and get new stolen GUID keys from their fellow hacking friends and it is easy enough to change your ip.
You ban one person for hacking and ten of his buddies log on and wreck your server, killing everyone on it and destroying everyone's gear. My self and my fellow admins have even been banned by them and my server name changed along with all starting load outs changed. As my team researched this we learned that their are 7 dollar hacks that give any script kiddie this kind of power and the DAYZ COMMUNITY does Nothing about it.
In my 20 yrs of gaming I have never seen anything as bad as this, it goes beyond personal cheating , anyone with a cheap to free cheat can shut a server down when ever they want.
The truth about the state of DayZ and the community which plays it needs to be exposed, for if it is not then nothing will change. Dayz gets nothing but good press when it does not deserve it.
People need to speak up about the true state of DayZ and force them to act.
As a side note for those who truly strive to have a pure gaming experience one has to ask themselves why are their no tools to combat scripts that can take over DayZ servers, is DayZ pro hacker, is Rocket pro hacker?
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Magic Propels my Rolly Chair.
Now, I know nothing of how Dayz servers work. But thinking along I.T lines could you do a MAC address ban, And have a server backup?
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We can only show them the path, but they have to be the ones to take it.
Originally posted by Nitth
I use IT terms to try and sound knowledgable about a subject.
Boycotting EA. Why? They suck, even moreso since 2008.
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Rocket is not wasting his or the other devs time working on the DayZ mod since they are busy developing a new game, one hopefully with fewer hackers. The reason, as I understand it, that the scripting is so easy in Arma 2 is because the game was designed as a coop team/squad game, not PvP. It was designed in a way that friends could get together and do thier own missions, modifying the game anyway they wanted without worrying about some bored idiot wanting to ruin everyones day for whatever reason. So having all these tools built into the core of the game make it a script kiddies dream come true.
The problems you describe are the reason I only play on private hives now. www.dayzrp.com is where I spend most of my time and the admins there have been pretty successful with keeping the lowlifes out.
Don't want to get off topic but I don't even think it is legal for me do dig into their stuff to get their Mac address, don't I have to inject something into their system to even get that info?
Point is I am not a game developer, just a guy who payed a monthly fee so that people could play DayZ on my server. My admins are trying various commercial hacks out now and testing them on our server, all I can say is What the Heck. They can see our Rcon tools and set them to default, they can do more with our server then DayZ enables the paying server owners to do.
This a DayZ developer problem and a community problem, a huge problem and people need to be made aware of the scope of the problem.
Pressure needs to be applied or the stand alone will be a utter failure resulting in thousands if not millions of people wasting their hard earned money for a mirage that never existed in the first place.
Originally posted by Murashu
This. I run a DayZ clan and have had a dedicated since the beggining. We have never had our server hacked like that but I can say the scripts are rampant. Truth be told Rocket never thought the game would blow up the way it did, so everyone got caught with their pants down. As far as calling Rocket a pro hacker, well that's the dumbest shit I've read all week.
I do understand the OP's frustration, and that is why my clan quit playing on the hive servers, and our shit is passworded. We did the whitelisting for a while but that became a job, and its a pain in the ass.
Now we just play Arma senarios made by our guildies, that or wasteland until the standalone release. Edit: Also OP, you have to remember, DayZ is not a game, its a MOD...
We have looked into white listing and passwording our server but then you are on a server with people who all know each other which kinda defeats the entire experience in my opinion.
Playing on a open server is like going out and meeting a woman, then bringing her home for the night.
Playing on a whitelisted server that is password locked is like going out and meeting your sister then taking her home for the night, yuk!
Why does Rocket get to have his cake and eat it to, We pay money to host DayZ servers, we pay money to play DayZ since you are forced to purchase Arma, again they might say its free buts its not.
Pressure needs to be applied, the community creates new maps and content all the time but cant police itself and help develop anti hacking software?
A reasonable person needs to wounder is the DayZ community pro hacker? and then what would the stand alone be if its base is pro hacker?
You cant leave your product name out on the market being hacked to crap by its community and claim that you are immune to its reputation, this is Rockets baby, this is the community's baby, they hold responsibility for its state.
Even the fact that you are forced to play on a passworded server validates my point.
This needs to be echoed through out the gaming community so hopefully things change or at the very least those who chose to invest time and money into the game understand the true state of it.
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ill just say you have to be really a pathetic little person sad really to CHEAT AT PVP on a video game, just sad. Just really proves that the person who is cheating is not man enough or has the "greatfruits" downstairs to have the skill to pvp without cheating.
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First of all, I am going to state upfron that I am no DayZ fanboy. All of what the OP says is true on public servers. From what I understand, ARMA II is a niche game that was constructed as an open engine for small groups of friends to play on. According to their fans, this worked very well until the explosion of popularity due to DayZ. ARMA is meant to allow scripts to be run so server admins can set up scenarios to play on. It is also true that Battle Eye does not work very well.
The only DayZ experience that I have had without hackers has been on whitelisted servers. You have to sign up on these to play and the server admin knows who the members are. Hackers cannot just pop on and destroy the game for other players. Currently, this is the only way to play DayZ. To the OP, I would recommned making your server a whitelisted server. I am sure it is alot of work but thats the only way to do it right now.
According to Dean Hall, this issue has been a major priority for the standalone game. They are also launching on Steam and that should help as well. Even with all of this, I am still only going to play DayZ on whitelisted servers. Most script kiddies simply do not have the patience to get whitelisted so they stick to the easily accessible public servers.
Originally posted by Dobeyxxl
Again OP, its a free mod..And no matter how you look at it its free. We played Arma before DayZ so... And as far as playing on our own server there are enough clanmates to fill it. So, it's still fun:)
But really, you take a chance to buy a game just to play a mod, i mean really who doz that?? ( About a million people) But let me ask you this, did you research the Arma engine (Game) before you bought it for Day? chalk it up as a lesson learned. Noone twisted your arm to do this, there was no one promoting the game other than word of mouth, Rocket was not waving his arms saying "buy Arma and play my mod"!!
Now when standalone comes out, and we still have these problems, then I will have your back.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Hopefully Rocket can get the stand alone to be less hack friendly but I have doubts.
Sadly this is one the reasons I only play Triple-A titles, indies just dont have the means necessary to stamp down on cheaters.
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You say DayZ is not a game people want to play without hackers then dismiss proven methods of playing without hackers...
I meet new people every time I play on the whitelisted server I mentioned previously and it is nothing like playing with your sister, I don't even want to understand where you were going with that. Most people do not play 7 nights a week so it is very common to have a larger group (300ish) of people signed up for a server to keep 35-50 people playing each night.
Rockets product as you call it, is a FREE mod. You do not pay him to use the mod or the servers. You buy Arma 2 which is a coop military sim that was not designed to combat hackers and script kiddies.
I think most reasonable people can appreciate what Rocket has provided for FREE and are willing to see what he can do with the standalone. He will be charging money for the standalone and if it is riddle with hackers, then we have something to bitch about.
I am not a child and have given up childish logic long ago. A grown person does not just except what they are told to.
If we critically examine the situation we can come to logically correct decisions.
Marek Spanel from Bohemia Interactive admitted that due to the DayZ mod Arma2 sales say a 500% increase and that they were more then happy to do work in future Arma updates ( this was back in 1.61) for DayZ.
"We are actively communicating about how we could best support the Arma 2 user community especially in multi player and Day Z players are right now a significant portion of people actively playing the game, so of course it's high on our priority list to support it the best we can"
In the real world it would appear that Bohemia interactive has acknowledged that DayZ is responsible for its increased revenue and that they actively participated in its development. Thus taking responsibility for the products success or failure.
Currently it is a utter hacked failure, Public hives aren't even played on anymore and privet hives are almost as worse, even true believers admit that they can only play on whitelisted servers with their friends.
Why is the state of DayZ a utter failure, why does Bohemia interactive get to benefit from a 500% sales increase yet claim , this is a free mod, yeah tell that to the bank or your lawyer, lol
Rocket created this and Arma helped along with the community, if it is a mess it is still their creation and the reputation still reflects on them.
In their own words this hacked to death mess is the "Best" that they can do. The gaming community in general needs to be made aware of this.
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hatred enriches.life is a prison, death a release.
or you do like they do on minecraft... host a white listed server, make a forum thread about joining said white listed server and the requirements to do so. person completes said sign up and you add them to the list.. its a fking what 8hr turn around. if the person fks up on the server and breaks the rules BAM gone.. problem solved.
its a public whitelist that way. it keeps scrubs out and keeps the player pool rotating so its not stagnate.
expecting anti-cheat software to do the job is stupid. if WoW cant anti-cheat protect it self what the fk makes you think a free mod on arma will beable to O_o
fps games are full of aimbot/wall cheat scripts thats pretty much all you should expect now any game you run or play will be hacked and scripted before it leaves beta... so you can only setup anti cheat on the server and lock it down so joe blow cant just join and piss on it then logout.. instead they have towork to get on it first.
as most retards are too dimwitted to wait the 24hrs to get accepted to the server.. they are most likely not going to waste time pissing on yours.
failing to do that is your own fault really. valve anti-cheat is full of cheats.. lol most hl2 mods/games run it just to keep the real dreg out.. so why dont you ?? :/
seeing as setting up and running a server is by most accounts a job.. why not take the time to secure it better then trusting in cheap easy broken anti cheats :/
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Originally posted by Dobeyxxl
You do not seem to understand what a mod is....
A team made a game, and gets payed when you buy arma II.
Dayz was made by a seperate person who does not get paid when you buy Arma, he took an engine that he thought he could work with and made a unique zombie survival game/mod. It has problems but it is a free mod for christ sake if you want Arma to work like Arma play it like Arma in co-op modern combat mode and stop playing it like a hacked version of Arma that has zombies running aorund in an mmo-ish environment.
They have already stated the stand alone version will use a different server system and one of the reasons is because of hacking. Move on, the free mod is probably not going to get that much support going forward with a standalone being worked on. I mean honestly who do you want to come to your rescue on your problems with the free mod? The original Arma team who didn't make the mod or the problems that come with the mod? The Dayz developer who is making a completely new product and didn't charge you anything for this free mod? Maybe your computer manufacturer should be involved in this somehow, after all they made the hardware that runs the software that runs the other software that is modded...and they are not doing a damn thing to stop your hacker problem.
I don't not believe that you fully understand the true state of DayZ, I am not talking about annoying little aim bots or esp hacks. The hacks that I am describing enable you to ban admins, inject stuff into the server database, remotely shut down Rcon tools, essentially from client side take over the server just by injecting a free script, its a horrible mess.
Some will argue that Arma was never meant for this but in their own words they admit that they benefit from charging us for the game and they would be doing their "best" to help improve the mod.
This is their best, why not secure your servers, stop client side script injection capabilities, develop tools that admins can use to combat hackers. The only way you can spectate view the players on your server is through hacking your own server and risk getting a global ban by Battleye yourself. That is ridiculous.
The community claims that giving admins the tools they need to combat hackers would lead to admin abuse so the hackers severely outgun the admins, if this doesn't sound like a pro hacker developer and community I don't know what does. These are private servers that we pay monthly fees to host.
You can white list what ever you want but people will still be pissed if a hacker gets in and nukes everything, which has already been described in the official dayZ forums. To quote " it only takes one hacker to ruin your white listed server and cause your members to quit". Many on the DayZ forums have posted about giving up on DayZ until standalone comes out, but why should we believe that things will be different?
If people choose to play DayZ knowing that it is hacked to crap that is fair enough but honestly the gaming media has not reported enough concerning the true state of the community and the game. It is only fair that people know what is really going on in DayZ before they spend money to play it.
My hope is that enough people will complain and things will change but I am afraid based upon the number of people who played on my server that cheated, their simply is not enough active legit DayZ members to make a difference.
Imagine if any person who was a member of MMORPG could take over the server when ever something upset them, perhaps a Mod reprimanded you or you didn't like a post and you just were able to nuke everything even banning other members and shutting down the mods and locking them out
That is what I am trying to explain what is happening in DayZ, it is utterly ridiculous and for the love of God i can not explain why it has not been reported on. All these articles about Mod of the year and what not are nothing more then rainbows and unicorns.
As we all know unicorns don't actually exist.
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Originally posted by Dobeyxxl
I agree with everything you said - but the problem, as someone else has pointed out, is that the first half of your above sentence is the most crucial part.
DayZ is NOT a game, at all. It is a mod.
It is just an experiment so that Rocket can get the experience and knowledge required going forward with his own game - that is the true, standalone version of DayZ.
If you want DayZ where they start to deal with hackers, wait till DayZ standalone comes out. With DayZ mod you are only participating in a experiment, nothing more.
The servers that you've paid for has nothing to do with Rocket - he doesn't even sell servers. It is hosted by providers. That's the key part you really need to understand.
You know what? I'm starting to think your one of those WarZ fucktards..
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According to Rockets latest posts. DayZ Standalone has an entirely new server side. It was written from the ground up to not trust clients. There is NO way for a client to run scripts on the server side like there is now. The mods works in such a way that a client can tell the server to do anything and the server goes, ok I'll do that. But that will no longer be the case with the stand alone version.
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Day-Z's hacking is pretty rampant, but that happens in any popular shooting game, and mods have it even worse. Problem is the anti-cheat that isn't even supported by arma anymore, bans random people. One of my friends actually got banned while playing legit on a server with 1 other person on it, because it detects false positives and gives you no chance to fight it. Basically his options were play day-z on unsecure servers without anti-cheat or play on privately owned servers. I think that this anti cheat is the reason hackers are running so rampant, it's garbage in design and in detecting actual hacks. I'm assuming with the standalone release it should have pretty decent anti cheats in place, but who knows maybe it will be just as bad.


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I would use the service. I'm sure they are going to offer something compelling that makes them different than Pandora and Spotify.
Apple close to deals on Pandora-like streaming service, hoping for summer launch
Apple may soon strike deals with two of the major record labels that would allow them to launch a Pandora-like radio service by this summer. While Apple seems to have made a deal that has them paying the labels less on a per-stream basis than Pandora, Apple's deal also includes new ways of generating revenue, according to Paul Sloan of CNET.
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Can be a new revenue stream for apple with the subscription income. However people who use this function will not see anything new since third party app allow iTunes purchase. Apple wants to control the content and maybe an advantage will be integration with music match and access to iTunes exclusive content for listeners.
Am I the only one who sees the now "s" that is to be the iPhone 5"S" ? maybe the "S" means song or Streaming Service...
just a thought...
5s, plural.
wrong topic. someone else had a similar comment about iphone 5s and something impacting them. they thought they were mentioning the iphone 5s as its official name, but it was meant to be plural, in referral to them.
But i still disagree, S has nothing to do with streaming or service or song.
Unlikely the streaming service would be exclusive to the 5S though.
Have tried Rdio and am currently with Spotify. It's worth £10 per month as it is very good. Offline playlists are the best thing - if Apple can bring this feature then it's game over. I have a feeling they won't.
I haven't used Spotify but have used Pandora a little recently. I am sure that Apple will do it better than anyone else and with iTunes and iOS it will dominate.
Same. I ditched Pandora when I hit my first 40 hour month limit and have been using Spotify since then. I was able to get infinite trial periods (resetting every 2 days), but I've lost the ability to do so due to selling one of my devices. Shame. Can't wait for Apple to bring this home for us.
All in all, an Apple radio service could truly be a perfect experience. iTunes alone has the proverbial lock on the music industry. Simply couple Apples vast iTunes library with a radio service and you have gold. Only time will truly tell.
The vast library belongs to the record labels, not apple. And it's basically the same library all the other services have access to. Still not sure what till make this service any different or better. Using the past as a guide, Apple's service will be more expensive and more limited than the competition but will still get millions more subscribers.
podcast app is fine.....
I hope it's got a competitive price point. I know liscensed music is expensive and all. But 10$+ for music, every month? That the price of an ipod mini, per year.
Speaking of which, wouldn't it be BRILLIANT if they sold iphones with subscriptions for 3-6 months. Get people hooked, while giving credit to a service that may really interest some. 16gb iphones already outsell everything else, they may as well make it a larger number. having streamed radio WILL decrease usage space.
I wonder how our data plans will respond..
also, a minimum subscription period will turn most people off. It should be month-to-month. Otherwise, no one will want to commit.
I'm in Canada so can't use Spotify or Pandora, but can you selectively listen to whatever albums and songs you want, or just a genera like other streaming radio apps? Because unless you can choose exactly what you want, personally I wouldn't be interested. If it were like the Xbox music pass though that would be awesome.
Wonder how they'll one up everybody. Could you actually take your playlists mobile for free? I do Spotify from a PC when I do & occasionally Pandora on my phone. Ooooooh good point about data...late model car with no aux so not much on the go.
I'd much rather see a real radio on the iPhone, to use without my data plan, but I guess Apple cannot monetize on that, so no point giving users that option, eh?
Another streaming service? No thanks, I have Rdio, which I can use on iOS, PC or Android. Any service from Apple will not give me these options so, thank you but no thank you.
Whoa.... déjà vu. Is it iRadio rumor time again? I guess so... it IS springtime. It sounds identical to the one from last year, and the year before that.
I would rather see them utilize these efforts into their already used iTunes Match service. Until they use their efforts to better the services they already have, I see no reason to add something new. I feel this may be another "Ping-like" endeavor and we see how well that went. Expanding into other lanes is vital for business, I understand, however only if the company puts more than half-assed work into it. Apple needs to take this endeavor seriously, and they may be able to compete. Still would like a better iTunes Match...something that is paid for rather than a free streaming-Pandora-like app.
What do you think would make iTunes Match better? I use it but haven't really thought of what's wrong with it.
I would definitely use the service. I think it's a good idea for sure.
but its still not XBox Music, I love my Lumia 920 and I cant ever see me buying another iPhone. Oh and a yrs free subscription to Pandora for all Windows Phone 8 users... Apple really are falling behind here, which is sad because they were a really good company. that is until the untimely demise of the late and great Steve Jobs. He made apple what it was and now he's gone, Apple is falling behind majorly and rather than innovating new ideas, they are taking old ideas and putting an apple label on them :(
I have a feeling you won't be able to delete the app and I hate having multiple apps on my phone that do the same thing so unless they don't offer a free service or Pandora is WAY better I will probably make the switch.
I don't use streaming radio often anyway so it is no big deal for me.
Pandora was great in the beginning, but seems like the playlist of an artist can be way off some days. The forty hour limit a month can add up, and another paid service is not what I need. It is a great price, but I have been using Rhapsody before I even had Apple products. I like the idea of a playlist of the artist instead of a mix that can be way off. Just works better for me. If Apple did something similar with their large library of music at a cheaper price than Rhapsody, I would go for it.
I am not sure how much I would like this. I am not a fan of the others so I have always wondered why people are so hip on these.
I would definitely use. For awhile I used Pandora, then switched to Spotify, and now I don't use either.


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BAKER — The Baker School boys basketball team stood toe-to-toe with a talented Paxton squad taking everything the Bobcats could throw at them for three quarters Monday night.
The Gators trailed the Bobcats 41-40 heading into the final period. But the fourth quarter was a different story as Paxton pulled away to a 67-45 win.
"We finally got the guys in there and got our rhythm," Bobcat coach Jeff Bradley said of his teams fourth quarter explosion. "We were just trying to find some chemistry early with some different guys in the lineup.
"It was a little smaller lineup than we usually put out there, but once the game went on we got our rhythm going. It was good learning experience for us."
William Anderson scored 24 seconds into the game to give Paxton (5-0) its first lead of the night.
Baker answered with six straight points on a Richard Stroheker free throw, a pair of free throws by Austin Martin and a 3-point basket by Brooks Taylor.
The first quarter went back and forth between the teams and ended with the squads tied 12-12.
An Austin Carnley 3-pointer with 12 seconds gone in the second quarter sparked a 10-0 Bobcat run.
Taylor's second 3-pointer of the night with 3:20 left in the first half closed the Bobcat lead back to seven points, but Baker (1-3) wasn't able to make up any ground the rest of the quarter as Paxton led 30-21 at the half.
The Gators came alive in the third quarter as Justin Morgan hit two quick 3s. When Taylor bagged his third bucket of the night from beyond the arch the game was tied 30-30.
Paxton regained the lead on back-to-back baskets by Grant Stewart and Zach Varnum. Baker came right back with a 3-pointer by Austin Hicks and a basket by Stroheker.
The teams traded baskets in the closing moments of the third quarter. A three-point play by Hicks off a steal gave Baker a 40-39 lead with 17 seconds left in the third quarter, but the lead didn't last long. Stewart scored with four seconds left in the quarter to put the Bobcats in front for good.
Stewarts' basket started a 10-0 run that carried into the fourth quarter. An Anderson basket early in the fourth quarter was sandwiched between a pair of Stewart 3-pointers. A Carnley basket completed the run that was only interrupted by a Martin free throw for Baker.
Martin's free throw ended a Gator scoring drought that lasted more than four minutes. By the time Morgan scored again for Baker the Bobcats were up 57-43 and had the game well in hand.
Gator assistant coach Daniel Batson said the coaches were proud of the way Baker battled and kept things close the first three quarters.
"I honestly think it was a game of emotions," Batson said. "For 24 minutes (the first three quarters) we frustrated them and took them out of rhythm.
"We played about as near perfect basketball as we could play. They (the Bobcats) somehow, someway turned their anger for the first three quarters into forcing us to make mental mistakes and they took off."
Batson went on to say the first three quarters showed that the Gators are capable of staying with a talented, well coached team.
"We played our best IQ game of the season," he said. "For 24 minutes I can't be more proud of the way we executed our game plan. It is very frustrating to know that for the last eight minutes it wasn't the game plan, but the emotions of the game that got us."
Stewart was the picture of consistency for the Bobcats on his way to a game high 26 points scoring 13 points in the first half and 13 in the second half. Carnely added 18 points and Anderson nine points.
Morgan topped the Gators with 15 points. Taylor pitched in nine. Hicks scored eight and Stroheker seven.
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I refuse to soil the silks. The Suns lost their second game in a row and didn't look great doing it, but I don't see a trend forming.
After losing Wednesday night, they're 8-4 in their last 12 games. They compete every night; it doesn't mean they're good every night, but they play like the Dogs of War are nipping at their heels every night.
Houston is a good team, 15 games over .500, and they're playing well. They were playing at home. They had won three in a row coming into Wednesday night and were 7-3 in their last 10 games. They're a good team.
But there is cause for concern when you think of Miles Plumlee, a guy that has been an integral piece to the Suns' unforeseen success. Miles has got to step it up. I think he's getting a little worn down mentally. He's not moving as well as he did. He's getting a lot of minutes, minutes he has never had the opportunity to get, previously. He plays hard but needs to push himself even more, not back off and pace himself.
And he doesn't look as confident as he did earlier in the year. He looks tentative with the ball. Dwight Howard smelled smoke while posting up on Plumlee and it wasn't coming from his hot hand. Howard rolled Plumlee up and smoked him like a big, fat Cuban and finished with a plus/minus that looked like Wall Street. Plumlee's plus/minus looked like Sochi.
It's OK, it happens. I have been there myself, many times. You think you're giving all you possess but you're really not and need to dig deeper, prepare harder. I'm sure the coaches are in his ear and expect to see him rebound, literally and figuratively.
The All-Star break should serve him well. But he's officially on the Suns' supernova watch.


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One of North Augusta's longest-running downtown businesses has moved but is still within sight of its original site, and its focus is still on brake jobs, muffler work, tire repairs and oil changes.
Carpenter Exxon was located in North Augusta at 326 Georgia Ave., starting in 1977, and is now on the opposite side of the street and known as Carpenter's Tire and Auto. The new locale is 429 Georgia Ave., between One Hour Cleanerizing and The Finer Consigner.
"We've got a larger space," said Ken Carpenter, the owner and namesake. "Plus, Jackson Square's been wanting to buy us out, so we were needing another place, so we bought this one. I think it's going to work out a lot better."
Brett Brannon, Jackson Square's managing partner, pointed out that the Carpenter space is related to recent work to remove dilapidated houses nearby on West Avenue. In the wake of those houses being removed, new parking and office space will be available on West Avenue, immediately behind the former Carpenter property, he said.
Last week's work included removal of a gas tank that was in use for most of the Carpenter location's existence as a repair facility and (less recently) a gas station.
Plans are for the old Carpenter building to be demolished "in the next month or so," Brannon said.
The prior location was frequently loaded with cars to the point that customers had to exercise creativity in parking, and the new site has less space in the front but more in the back.
"It won't look as cluttered," Carpenter said with a laugh. "That way, people won't be saying, 'Well, you're too busy. I'm going to head down the street.'"
The former site had two service bays, and the new one has six. Service involves "a little bit of everything," Carpenter said, noting that he doesn't want to get heavily involved in changing motors just yet.
As for the months ahead, Brannon said, "We're going to evaluate a number of opportunities," keeping in mind the desire that some local residents have expressed for "more restaurants, more retail and more professional folks" in downtown North Augusta.
"We want to make sure we give time for tenants to surface that would be positive for downtown North Augusta. We're at 100-percent occupancy in Jackson Square," he added.
Haste is not a factor in planning the next step, he confirmed. "You only get a chance to do it once."
Photo by Bill Bengtson Frank Carpenter and dad Ken Carpenter are still in the automotive business on Georgia Avenue, but theyve moved about a block uphill from the river.×
Photo by Bill Bengtson Cleaning up the alleyway next to the former Carpenter Exxon site Friday afternoon is Neil Lawson, with Thompson Building and Wrecking. The car-repair shop is still in business but has moved about a block farther away from the river.×
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Hunter is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University, a pediatric nurse practitioner, and is actively involved with international nursing. She has helped train over 100 community health educators in Ghana and currently serves as a health consultant to the Minister of Health for the Western Region of Ghana. She has been leading health-related mission trips to Ghana for six years and has taken approximately 300 students and other health professionals to this community to provide care.
In addition, Dr. Hunter is an active member of the American Nurses Association, National Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Associates, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, National Association of Nurse Practitioner Faculties as well as the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.
Moreover, Hunter developed the Adolescent Resilience Screening Instrument, which is being used successfully in Ghana, Northern Ireland, Taiwan, Cuba, Canada, and various sites across the United States. It is used to identify resilient practices that could lead to maladaptive or psychopathological behaviors like those exhibited at Columbine school shooting. Currently her work is being used as a framework for an NIH grant addressing violence prevention.
In 1994 Hunter won the University of Connecticut's Outstanding Professional Award for her groundbreaking study in the field of adolescent resilience, the development of culturally competent college graduates, and work in addressing international health care issues related to infant morbidity and mortality. Other honors and awards she has received include the Writing Excellence Award from SC Nurse in 2001, the Teaching Excellence Award from the Clemson School of Nursing in 2001, and membership in the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society since 1985.
more complex.
Chamorel explains that globalization presents
a greater challenge to France than to any other major
developed country because of the traditional role of
the state, the centrality of its culture and its desire to
remain an important player on the world scene. But, according to Chamorel,
under the influence of the European
Union and of market realities, the French economy
in the last fifteen years has gone through a dramatic,
unexpected and successful transformation.
These too often unrecognized accomplishments, however, don't mean France has given up on its "difference." The reasons globalization - and Americanization-have generated so much more debate in France than virtually anywhere else are mostly cultural: they are perceived as threatening French culture, language, way of life and egalitarian societal model, that is French identity itself. The response of the French government has been to defend the cause of "French cultural exception" and "cultural diversity" and to pursue a comprehensive agenda of "managed globalization" on the internationaI scene.
Are these attempts likely to change globalization as much as globalization has changed France?
Patrick Chamorel is Crown Visiting Professor at CMC for the spring semester and teaches a course on Comparing the Ways the United States and Europe Approach Globalization. His first hand knowledge of French and American politics, international economic policy and business have made him an authority for speaking on France and globalization.
Between 1982 and 1995, Patrick Chamorel was responsible for international affairs in the French Ministry of Industry and then for international trade in the Prime Minister's Office. During that time, he continued to teach and write on American politics and was an American Political Science Congressional Fellow in 1987-88 and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at Berkeley in 1993.
He has been teaching European politics at George Washington University and will be a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center - starting in the fall. In addition to globalization, his research focuses on the policy consequences on the transatlantic relationship of American exceptionalism and European identity.
DOUG BALLARD, narrator, guard, station master, bailiff
GREG WHITE, man one, ticket master, hofbauer
LANCE DAVIS, man two, Koby, a blind eunuch
JAMES CALVERT, man three, painter, Loby, a blind eunuch, doctor
SANDY KENYON, mayor
JAMES GLEASON, school master
MICHAEL MANUEL, priest
STEVEN GILBORN, Alfred Ill
MARILYN MCINTYRE, Claire Zachanassian
DON FISCHER, husbands VII - IX
J. DOWNING, Butler baby, first reporter, radio commentator
DAVE FLOREK, policeman
DAVID MAUER, Roby/guitarist, Ill's son, cameraman
CAROLE GOLDMAN, Mrs. Ill, woman one
RACHAEL HARRIS, Annie Dummermutt, Ill's daughter, woman two
staged by world butchers. . . [P]ower today is only minimally
visible, since like an iceberg the largest part is sunk in faceless abstraction.
-Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss-born playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) scoffed at critics' relentless search for symbolism, allegory, and topical allusion in his plays. "Misunderstandings creep in," he once remarked, "because people desperately search the hen yard of my drama for the egg of explanation which I steadfastly refuse to lay." Despite that authorial rebuff, one can hardly fail to notice in Durrenmatt's plays the disquiet and angst that, along with more palpable misery, afflicted much of the world throughout the most war-ravaged century in recorded history. In Der Besuch der Alten Dame ("The Visit of the Old Woman"), first staged in 1956, inhabitants of a fictional village find their moral and ethical principles put to a severe test, only to see those values compromised and finally eroded by the inexorable urgencies of poverty and ruin.
ln its continuing commitment to bring artistic, cultural, and musical events to the community, the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies proudly sponsor the Interact Theatre Company's dramatic reading of Durrenmatt's The Visit. Interact, which last year brought its splendid ensemble reading of Anouilh's Antigone to the Athenaeum, is an independent collective, formed in North Hollywood in the early 1990s by transplanted, experienced New York stage actors. Since its first productions in 1992, it has received 53 awards and 91 nominations for its achievements in the theater. These include 17 nominations from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, four Theatre LA Ovation Awards (from nine nominations), five Back Stage West Garland Awards (as well as ten Honorable Mentions), and 22 Drama-Logue Awards. The Los Angeles Times has called Interact "one of the true theatre successes of the 90s," while Back Stage West has praised it for "sustained excellence in theatre."
Interact's repertory has been as comprehensive and exploratory as its community outreach. The annual Interactivity Festival, begun in 1994, has brought nearly 140 plays (classic, modern, and experimental), featuring over 350 actors, to some 5000 patrons. Interplay, a Children's Theater Workshop, affords culturally diverse and artistically underserved youth and their parents the opportunity to explore their natural creativity under the guidance and encouragement of skilled theater artisans.
KATHLEEN MCINTOSH, harpsichord
LISA WEISS, violin
JANET WORSLEY STRAUSS, violin
STEPHEN SCHULTZ, flute
ALFRED CRAMER, cello
JAMES BELL, viola
BENJAMIN WYATT, cello
DENISE BRIESE, viola da gamba
Based in Claremont, Con Gioia has performed at venues including the J. Paul Getty Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the California lnstitute of Technology, and for the guests of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The ensemble's debut in 1981/1982 featured the keyboard concertos of J. S. Bach. Last fall, Con Gioia embarked on its third decade, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Bach's death by revisiting this repetoire. Having presented eight concertos, in 2000-2001, the group will complete its concert series presenting all of Bach's fifteen keyboard concertos.
Founder-Director Preethi de Silva, called "a musician of great accomplishment and imagination" by the Daily Telegraph of
London, participates in the group as lead harpsichordist. Winner of numerous prestigious national and international music awards, de Silva is professor of music at Scripps College, Her recordings of works, by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, and J. G. Muthel have won the highest critical acclaim. During Leipzig's Bach-Tercentenary celebrations in 1985, she was invited to perform an all-Bach
harpsichord recital at the city's Town Hall. During another very significant commemoration of Bach, she is happy to share her joy of performing Bach's music by presenting his extraordinary keyboard concerto repertoire to local audiences.
This concert will also feature harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, the Con Gioia string ensemble, led by Lisa Weiss and Janet Worsley Strauss; and Stephen Schultz on the transverse flute.
This concert is jointly sponsored by the Athenaeum and the Claremont Community Foundation.
Additionally, from the fall of 1999 through spring of 2000, Berns served as Senior Producer for sports for the Internet site Oxygen.com. From 1996-98 she was an online columnist for CBS SportsLine.
Berns has served as a consultant to the National Football League, for which she developed, designed and implemented their "Football 101" instructional series for women, which is now offered by the league in every NFL market. Berns has also worked with numerous sponsors to reach female sports fans. She created and executed a nationwide search for football's "ultimate female fan" sponsored by Procter & Gamble, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and CBS SportsLine. She has written for, or been featured in, USA Today, Extra, ABC World News Tonight, Fox News Channel, Comedy Central, and Sport magazine.
Berns has an MBA From the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College.
Berns, who grew up as the youngest child in a family with three older brothers, began learning about sports at a young age when her brothers gave her tests in basic football knowledge so that she could even out teams in touch football games. She has been an avid fan of the game and of sports ever since.
Lunch begins at 11:45 a.m. Betsy will speak at 12:15 p.m.
As codirector of the Sloan Center, Schneider researches the ways families invest time and resources, how they make these decisions, and what repercussions these choices have on relationships and the development of children. She also serves as Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and is a Senior Social Scientist at the National Opinion Research Center, a surveying and data analysis organization.
Schneider's books looking at families and educational systems include Adolescent Years: Social Influences and Educational Challenges (1998) and The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenager, Motivated but Directionless (1999).
Schneider's talk at the Athenaeum-made possible by CMC's Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children - will discuss the critical importance of family time for the development of healthy children and of a positive family unit.
Well, perhaps not directly - but as chairman of the Law School Admission Council's Board of Trustees, Johnson's two-year volunteer position provides an opportunity for him to be a vocal figure at a time in which schools like UCLA (and Pitzer College in Claremont) are questioning the value of traditional standardized tests in general. Johnson recognizes that the LSAT does not necessarily predict a student's success in law school, but he asserts that it nevertheless is a useful, impartial tool. As an African-American himself, Johnson disagrees with any assertion that the LSAT is biased against minorities. In an interview in the Chicago Tribune last fall, Johnson said, "the test is a great equalizer for minorities and others because it is one standardized metric we have to compare people across schools .... People can prove they can compete at the highest competitive level."
Johnson himself has continually proven his ability to succeed at the highest level. After graduating from the UCLA School of Law he worked for Latham & Watkins, a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. He eventually moved into teaching, and is currently a Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to his national position with the Law School Admissions Council, Johnson served as Vice Provost for faculty recruitment and retention at UVa.
CMC students aspiring to become lawyers have a unique opportunity to meet one of the College's most distinguished alumni.
Throughout the book, Zucotti demonstrates with new clarity the degree to which the pope himself took action, the extent to which he encouraged others to act, and the magnitude of the Vatican's failure to assist Italy's Jews. She finds that the most significant gestures of help offered by the Church to Jews in Italy were made by clerics and believers - mostly nuns, monks, and priests-uninvolved in top-level Vatican discussions, By 1942, the pope "knew and believed a great deal about the exterminations." In 1943 when Germans took control of northern and central Italy and attempted to exterminate the region's Jewish population, the Vatican knew very clearly the magnitude of the genocide, and to Zucotti, the notion that Pius XII was benevolent and helpful to the Jews behind the scenes proves to be a myth. The Vatican's silence, Zucotti argues, still resonates in the Church's statements about the Holocaust today.
Susan Zucotti won the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies for her first book, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival (1987). She is also the author of The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews (1993). Zucotti's essay "Pope Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust: Examining Commonly Accepted Assertions" will appear in Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, a forthcoming book edited by CMC professor John K. Roth. The book will be published by Continuum Books.
Zucotti received a Ph.D. in modern European history from Columbia University and has taught Holocaust history at Barnard College in New York and Trinity College in Hartford.
Susan Zucotti's Athenaeum lecture is jointly sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and is part of the series Researching the Holocaust.
This year's Podlich Distinguished Fellow, Professor Kolakowksi began his career at Warsaw University. Having been expelled from his university post by the Polish government in 1968 for political reasons, he became a Visiting Professor at McGill University and at Berkeley before being appointed Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College Oxford. During the 1970s he wrote his monumental, three-volume Main Currents of Marxism (Oxford, 1978). From 1981 to 1994 he was also Professor on the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Professor Kolakowski is the author of over thirty books including Religion: If There is No God... On God, the Devil, Sin, and Other Worries of the So-Called Philosophy of Religion (1990), Bergson (1985), Husserl and the Search for Certitude (1975), Metaphysical Horror (1988), The Presence of Myth, God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and the Spirit of Jansenism (1995). His many honors include six honorary doctorates, a McArthur Fellowship, the Jefferson Award, and Prix Tocqueville. Kolakowski will be in residence at Claremont McKenna College until March 30th. He gave his first lecture, "On Natural Law," at the Athenaeum on February 12th.