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Where has the LAthtrNinja gone?
Colin Mitchell | Jan 08, 2013 | Comments 4 |
You may remember him/her.
Twitter handle: @LAthtrninja.
Stealthily promoting Theatre in Los Angeles.
The Shadows of LA's Theatres.
Kinda silly, sure, but it was also kinda fun, trying to figure out who exactly WAS the LAThtrNinja. Knowing this person was there with you on certain night in the theater but not quite sure who it might be. And the tweets were, well, kinda ninja-worthy and I'll even argue, good for LA Theater.
And then on August 17, 2011 there came this re-tweet:
Is it sit down? RT
@allubelalone: Al Lubel- Al Alone: A One Man Show About One Man. Dark,edgy,hilarious!(NOT stand up). www.allubel.com
And then nothing. Not a peep. Not a tweet to be found for over a year and half. Don't know why this has suddenly leapt back into my brain today, but it has and so I do what I do, post about it.
I've always had my suspicions who this person was and frankly I think the timing of the final tweet may be a clue. I'm guessing the person either left town or else got a real job that made it practically impossible for their tweets to have any relevance anymore.
What do you think, LemonHeads? Who was and perhaps still is the LAthtrNinja? Why did they stop tweeting? Where did they go? Did someone take this individual out? And if so, why? And does anybody except me really care?
Come back, LAthtrNinja, come back. We need you.
Filed Under: colin mitchell • Featured • Ponderings
About the Author: COLIN MITCHELL: Actor/Writer/Director/Producer/Father, award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Broadway veteran, Marvel comics scribe, Van Morrison disciple, Zen-Catholic, a proud U.S. Army Brat conceived in Scotland and born in Frankfurt, Germany, currently living in Los Angeles and doing his best to piss off as many people as possible.
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We love the LAThtrNinja! Wish they'd come back, whoever they are. The concept is awesome and the buzz they generated was substantial. If the original can't come back, perhaps it's time to hand the cowl and katana down to the next generation.
::ninja smoke::


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Prerelease screening courtesy of Social Capital Entertainment
Winner of an audience award at the 2014 South by Southwest film festival, Take Me to the River follows multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians through the creative process of recording a historic new album that reimagines the utopia of racial, gender, and generational collaboration of Memphis in its heyday. Hosted by Terrence Howard, the film features William Bell, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Otis Clay, Snoop Dogg, Frayser Boy, Lil P-Nut, Charlie Musselwhite, the North Mississippi Allstars, Bobby Rush, Mavis Staples, and many others.
► A Q&A with Al Kapone (via Skype) and Al Bell (in person) follows the screening.
Al Kapone (Alphonzo Bailey) is a rapper from Memphis known for his underground success in the Memphis hip-hop scene in the 1990s. Kapone achieved mainstream success for the "Hustle and Flow" soundtrack, which featured one solo track, "Get Crunk, Get Buck"; he also wrote and produced "Whoop That Trick" and wrote "Hustle & Flow (It Ain't Over)," both of which were performed by Three 6 Mafia's Djay Paul. Kapone's "The Deepest Hood" was featured in the film "Stomp the Yard." His albums include "Street Knowledge, Chapters 1–12," "Sinista Funk," "Pure Ghetto Anger," "Da Resurrection," "What Cha Got," "Memphis to the Bomb Out Bay," "Showdown," "Goin' All Out," "Poppin Tags," "Al Kapeezy Oh Boy—The Hits!!," "Guitar Bump," and "The Kapeezy Soul Hop Experience." He has collaborated with musicians including Mike Jones, Too Short, Pimp C, Pastor Troy, and D-Shot. He cowrote E-40's "U and Dat" and Lil' Jon's "Snap Yo Fingers" and appeared on Three 6 Mafia's album "Last 2 Walk" and 8Ball & MJG's "Ridin' High."
Al Bell (Alvertis Isbell) is a record producer, songwriter ("I'll Take You There"), and label executive, best known as the co-owner of Stax Records during the latter half of the label's 19-year existence. He was vital to the careers of many of Stax's stars, including the Staples Singers, Isaac Hayes, the Emotions, and the Dramatics. Bell's promotional efforts drove the "Memphis Sound" internationally and made Stax the second-largest African American owned business in the 1970s. In 2009, the BBC profiled Bell as "one of the icons of soul music." He began his career as a teenage DJ in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1950s. After Stax, Bell became president of Motown Records during its restructuring for sale to MCA and Boston Ventures Group. His own label, Bellmark, released Tag Team's "Whoomp! (There It Is)" and Duice's "Dazzey Duks." He also worked with Prince on "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." Bell serves as chairman and CEO Al Bell Presents, an intellectual property management company.
Community partners: Houston Cinema Arts Society and the Houston Film Commission

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Opened in the fall of 2012, The Trumbull Aquatics Center is the home of Denison's Big Red swimming and diving teams. The expansive $20 million facility is named in honor of Scott '70 and Margy Trumbull.
One of the most advanced facilities of its kind, the aquatics center features a 50-meter long, 25-yard wide competition course; a large diving well; and seating for just over 750 spectators. The aquatics center includes a state-of-the-art timing and scoring system, two full-color video boards, a high-quality sound system, and a whirlpool spa adjacent to the diving well. Also included in the facility are well-equipped areas for event administration and media coverage.
In 2014 the Trumbull Aquatics Center served as the host site for the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships and the NCAA Division III Diving Regional. The facility will host the NCAC Swimming & Diving Championships again in 2015.
In addition to the benefits for the varsity swimming & diving program, the Trumbull Aquatics Center also provides the entire campus community with abundant space for recreational swimming and other aquatic activities.


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April 24, 2013
Spring Practice No. 13 Photo Gallery
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker didn't give it a second thought when given the opportunity to pull double duty as the Hawkeyes' secondary coach in 2013.
"There was no hesitation for me to go back," Parker said Wednesday during a news conference inside the Hayden Fry Football Complex. "The year before when (I was defensive coordinator only), and I wasn't actually in the meetings, you kind of miss it. I was looking for the opportunity to come back, so I was pleased to get back there."
During Parker's first 13 years on UI head coach Kirk Ferentz's staff, he was the secondary coach. The 2012 season was Parker's first as defensive coordinator.
"I've been in the secondary for a long time, so it's easy for me to walk in a room and get guys to understand what I need from them," said Parker. "That hasn't changed for me. It gets me in touch with the guys more."
Heading into the 2013 season, Parker says he needs the secondary to contest balls and give consistent effort. That's his charge for returning starters Tanner Miller, Nico Law, and B.J. Lowery.
"I don't mind guys getting beat if the plays are contested," he said. "You look at how many big plays we gave up (last year), compared to the year before and years past, and they're very similar numbers. Some of them are a little bit too uncontested for running free."
"I've been in the secondary for a long time, so it's easy for me to walk in a room and get guys to understand what I need from them. That hasn't changed for me. It gets me in touch with the guys more."
UI defensive coordinator/secondary coach Phil Parker
Parker says Miller has emerged as a leader in the secondary, while Lowery is competing at the highest level of his career.
"Tanner has done a better job of staying focused, trying to be a leader back in the secondary, along with B.J.," said Parker. "B.J. is playing at his highest level he has right now. He has been making good progress. They all have been working together and are starting to form a good unit."
For a defense that relies on its front four to provide pressure on the quarterback, Parker believes the pieces are coming together for the team up front, but remains a work in progress.
Junior tackle Carl Davis and freshman tackle/end Faith Ekakitie are two of the Hawkeyes making a name for themselves in spring practice. Davis played in 11 games, tallying 14 tackles, including 1.5 for loss a season ago, while Ekakitie redshirted in 2012 after joining the program as a highly-touted recruit.
"Carl is a 315-pound, very good athlete that can move," said Parker. "He enjoys football a little bit (now) and enjoys coming out to practice. That's helping with his progress, and we're very happy with him."
Ekakitie is one of three redshirt freshman on the two-deeps along with defensive tackle Jaleel Johnson and defensive end Daumantas Venckus-Cucchiara. Ekakitie reminds the coaching staff of former Hawkeye and current Minnesota Viking defensive lineman Christian Ballard because of his versatility to play both inside and outside.
"Faith is probably the most intriguing guy," said Parker. "We're impressed with the way he can run and move. We're intrigued by putting him out on the edge. Jaleel is a strong, big kid, who is hard to move.
"(The freshmen are) still a ways away; they're still young pups. They're definitely going to have to help us out this year."
With three senior linebackers -- James Morris, Anthony Hitchens and Christian Kirksey -- back to anchor the defense, Parker says Iowa could draw more pressure to help the defensive front.
"We might have to create situations a little bit more to help them out, maybe add some guys to the rush a little bit," he said. "My biggest thing is to try not to give up big plays. The game is still about scoring and not giving up points. That's the most important thing.
"The last two years, we gave up 24 (points per game in 2011), and last year 23 (in 2012). My main concern is points."
Iowa will hold its annual open spring practice Saturday, present by Coke Zero. Gates to Kinnick Stadium open at 1 p.m. (CT), with drills and scrimmage beginning at 2. There is no admission charge, but fans are invited to contribute non-perishable food items. The first 5,000 fans who make a donation will receive a souvenir ANF "Farm Strong" poster featuring Casey Wiegmann.


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Measles immunizations
John Monroe, MD, is a family practice physician on staff at Banner Estrella Medical Center. He can be reached at (623) 889-3477.
Question: There are so many different immunizations today. Are they all necessary and when should we start to vaccinate our baby?
Answer: Immunization is really the epitome of preventive medicine. The country, if not the world, wants to get to a place where we are proactive in preventing diseases from occurring rather than treating them after the child gets sick.
At one time, diseases such as polio, diphtheria and smallpox caused devastating problems for hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Because of good immunization programs they have all but been eradicated. Many young people today have never heard of some of the diseases that plagued previous generations.
A recent press release from the Arizona Department of Health Services addressed a measles outbreak in Southern Arizona affecting eleven people. Of those eleven, six children and five adults, all were previously unvaccinated underlining the necessity of getting the recommended immunizations.
It is never too late for adults to receive a measles vaccination if they have never had one. Because immunizations are recommended by physicians and required before a youngster can start school, we are seeing fewer and fewer cases of measles and other childhood diseases that once were prevalent. In my practice I have never seen a case of measles. That speaks volumes of the effectiveness of immunizations.
In this country immunizations start when a baby is born. They get the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth. That is followed by a series of vaccinations starting when the infant is two months old.
Are all vaccines safe? There is always a chance of side effects with any type of medication. We, as physicians, have to be careful to inform our patients that there have been rare cases of side effects occurring but the benefits outweigh the risks every time. Don't play Russian Roulette with your child's health. Make sure they have the proper vaccinations.
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Family members said 24-year-old Cory Bush never aimed his gun at deputies.
Distraught family members are sticking by their claim that this didn't have to happen despite investigators' claims the deputy had no choice.
For the family of Bush, these have been the toughest days of their lives. Bush was shot and killed by Butte County Deputy Ben Cornelius Sunday night on Refuge Avenue in Palermo.
Investigators claim he pointed a gun at deputies.
"When the dog got there Cory threw the pellet gun down after he was holding it at port arms," said Bush's stepson, Daniel Menzes. "The barrel wasn't pointed at anybody."
Menzes said he saw the whole thing, and Bush didn't want to hurt anyone.
"He was like this about to grab it back up," said Menzes. "He said it's just a pellet gun and then when he was coming back up about right here ... boom, boom, boom."
Deputies responded to bush's home after family members reported he was having a nervous breakdown, tearing up the house and making suicidal statements.
"I told them he has a pellet gun," said Menzes. "He doesn't want to hurt anybody. He's trying to hurt himself. Don't do anything and then the guy said okay."
"They could have Tazed him, and they could've gotten him," said Bush's girlfriend, Victoria Menzes. "At no point was he a threat to their lives."
The Butte County District Attorney's Office said Bush's pellet gun is a deadly weapon, and can easily be mistaken for a .22 caliber rifle.
"It doesn't have any orange tip," said District Attorney Mike Ramsey. "There's nothing that you're going to tell to distinguish if that's a .22. It's not a BB gun. It's not a soft pellet."
Family members said they'll never look at law enforcement the same again.
"You call them for help and they come in your yard ... they killed their father," said Victoria Menzes. "How do you trust a police officer after that?"
Ramsey said he'll determine whether the shooting was officially justified once the investigation is complete.


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Jamie L. Place, 43, of Quakertown, died with his girlfriend, Mary Shoener, of Middleport, in a motorcycle accident in Greene, NY., Sunday June 24. Jamie was the son of Kathleen L. (Brzezicki) Place, with whom he resided and the late William T. Place. Born in Quakertown, he was a 1987 graduate of Quakertown High School. He was the warehouse manager for Premium Sign Supplies, Inc., Telford. Previously he worked for the former Vinyl Sign Supplies Co., Quakertown, Richland Feed Co., Richlandtown, and farmed on the Place Brothers Farm, Richlandtown.
He was a member of St. Isidore's Catholic Church, Quakertown, the Sellersville Moose Lodge, Beethoven Waldheim, Leithsville, and the Silver Creek Athletic Assoc., Springtown. He enjoyed bowling.
Surviving with his mother, sisters Janine Gruber (Jesse), Richlandtown, Maurine Cressman (Daniel), Quakertown, Julianne Place ( Dan Brechbiel) Brookhaven, nieces.
A funeral mass will be celebrated 1 Pm Sat. June 30 in St. Isidore's Catholic Church, 2425 W. Pumping Station Rd., Quakertown. Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Family & friends are invited to call at the Jeffrey A. Naugle Funeral & Cremation Service, 135 W. Pumping Station Rd., Quakertown, www.janauglefcs.com , Fri., June 29, 7 – 9 PM or at church Sat. noon – 1 PM. Memorial contributions to St. Isidore's Catholic Church.


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TUCSON– The University of Arizona Wildcat men's and women's track and field teams hosted the annual Winter All-Comers Meet on Saturday at Roy P. Drachman Stadium. The entire track and field program was split up into three teams, red, white and blue. The blue team successfully defended their title, totaling 203 points (men and women combined), red had 199 points and the white team tallied 164.
On the blue team, junior Mohammad Alhasan won the 60-meter dash and 150-meter dash on Saturday, clocking times of 6.82 and 15.93, respectively. Senior Germe Poston won with a time of 7.60 in the 60-meter dash. The women's 4x300-meter relay team of freshman Jasper Gray, Poston, freshman Lizzie Smith and freshman Aaliyah Haggard took second place with a time of 2:42.44. Freshman Savannah Whitehead won the women's pole vault with a clearance of 11-6 (3.50m). Junior Baillie Gibson took second place in the shot put with a toss of 45-2.5 (13.78m). Gibson's mark of 127-8 (38.91m) in the discus was good for second place. She also threw the hammer and had the top mark for Arizona competitors, throwing 185-4 (56.49m). Senior Lawi Lalang won the 1,000-meter race with a time of 2:25.42 and he won the 3K with a time of 8:26.16. Junior Sam Macaluso finished the 3K in second place with a time of 8:36.94. Senior Steven Scarvelis won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.34. Redshirt freshman Aaron Castle took first place in the shot put with a toss of 53-0 (16.15m). Sophomore Jonny Giess won the javelin competition with a mark of 172-11 (52.70m). He also took third place in the high jump with a mark of 6-6.75 (2.00m).
For the red team, senior Shapri Romero won the 150-meter dash and 600-meter run with times of 17.89 and 1:33.94, respectively. Sophomore Nnenya Hailey earned first-place finishes in 60-meter hurdles and 250-meter hurdles, clocking times of 8.41 and 34.87, respectively. The quartet of Hailey, senior Tamara Pridgett, freshman Alex Gilbert and senior Shapri Romero won the women's 4x300-meter relay with a time of 2:36.78. Freshman Lisanne Hagens won the women's high jump with a clearance of 5-7 (1.70m). Senior Amber Passalaqua earned a second-place finish in the high jump and a first-place finish in the long jump. She cleared 5-5 (1.65m) in the high jump and jumped 18-4 (5.59m). Senior Julie Labonté won the shot put and the discus with marks of 47-7.25 (14.51m) and 169-5 (51.65m), respectively. Labonté also won the javelin with a toss of 111-6 (34.00m). Senior Nick Ross won the men's high jump with a clearance of 7-2.5 (2.20m). Ross also won the long jump with a mark of 23-1.75 (7.05m). Freshman Avery Mickeys finished in second place with a jump of 23-1.25 (7.04m). Redshirt sophomore Harrison Ivie won the men's pole vault with a clearance of 14-6 (4.41m).
Senior Meg Bellino was the top Wildcat to finish the women's 1K, clocking a time of 2:58.31. Junior Stephanie Bulder won the women's 3K with a time of 10:37.32. Sophomore Traci-Lynn Hicks' time of 8.49 in the 60-meter hurdles was good for second place. Freshman Aleah Hurst scored for the white team in the 60-meter dash (8.19, sixth place), 60-meter hurdles (9.57 fifth place) and long jump (16-10/5.13m). Senior Omotayo Talabi added to the white team's tally for her work in the shot put (43-10.5/13.37m), discus, hammer and javelin. Freshman Bryce Houston won the 300-meter dash with a time of 34.99. Freshman Miles Parish took first place in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:19.16. Freshman Collins Kibet's time of 2:26.06 in the 1K was good for second place. The quartet of Houston, Parish, junior Branden Helms and sophomore Bernard Dickerson-Quinn won the 4x300-meter relay with a time of 2:21.04. Redshirt freshman Jordan Young took second place in the shot put with a toss of 51-3.5 (15.63m). Young's mark of 168-1 (51.23m) in the discus was good for first place. He also won the hammer with a toss of 207-0 (63.09m).
"I was very please and very excited for all the athletes on the team," head coach Fred Harvey said. "It was far and away the most competitive red-white-blue meet we've ever had. The most pleasing thing was watching the level of competition that we had with each of the athletes in their event areas. We're excited, we're going in the right direction and looking forward to having a great Christmas break and get ready for the indoor season."
For continued coverage of Arizona Wildcat men's and women's track and field, visit ArizonaWildcats.com and follow @ArizonaTrack on Twitter and Instagram.


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A dog and cat were literally crucified in Malta, on the heels of repeated attacks of the same kind.
There are many recent news references to this atrocity, which happens with frequency -- specifically on the 16th of the month.
There is suspected religious bigotry associated with this act, but that is not the purpose of this petition. This petition condemns and seeks to bring to justice those who perform such unspeakable acts of cruelty, irrespective of their purpose.
Sign out of pain and righteous indignation for the innocent victims. Call for extreme punishment if you are so moved. But, whatever you do, please don't support hating the perpetrators merely because of their (as yet still unestablished) alleged religious affiliations.
See: http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-03/news/cat-dog-found-crucified-outside-mosta-church-chapel-3855253504/
Please spread the word, for if we do not do so, who will?
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One of the clearest indications of just how incredibly safe cannabis is to ingest into your body comes from the oft-repeated fact that in literally thousands of years of human use, not one fatal overdose has ever occurred.
Although such a scenario is, at least theoretically, possible, according to DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young, who detailed exactly how much reefer you'd have to inhale (and how fast) to suffer death by marijuana in a 1988 ruling:
Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50 rating [which] indicates at what dosage 50% of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response.
Now, let's assume for the sake of easy math and bragging rights that like many HIGH TIMES readers, you roll your joints just a little fatter than the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and they actually weigh one gram each. According to these figures, you'd have to smoke at the very least 20,000 of those joints in 15 minutes to have even a 50/50 chance of kicking the bucket. But first -- if you were buying all of that pot legally in Colorado at least -- you'd have to find about $300,000 to pay for it, what with the going rate for most strains of herb around $15 per gram after taxes.
So naturally, on New Year's Day, when a clever hoax started going around the internet announcing that Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization, those of us in the know had a good laugh at the very notion, an absurdity that actually pointed out exactly how insane marijuana prohibition is in a nation where booze, pills and cancer sticks remain readily available and heavily promoted despite killing millions.
While marijuana's complete inability to prove fatal stems from the fact that compounds found only in the cannabis plant fit directly into special receptors placed all over the human body, forming an Endocannabinoid System that's integral to maintaining health and fighting disease.
Unfortunately, due to decades of anti-pot propaganda, most people don't understand this, and so the hoax was all-too-often taken seriously on the Internet. Including by those who should have known better, like Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask of the ruling Conservative Party, who posted the satirical story about overdoses to her social media with a self-congratulatory note about her own support for zero-tolerance marijuana laws: "Stupid and sad. My first bill in the youth wing was called Outfight the Drugs! In this matter I haven't changed opinion at all."
Perhaps now that the smoke's cleared, someone will let this cognitively-impaired politician know that her opinions should change, since they're clearly at odds with a little something called the facts.


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Walter Stephen Mott III
Position: C
Height: 6-3 Weight: 266 lbs.
Born: March 24, 1961 in New Orleans, LA
High School: Archbishop Shaw
College: Alabama (school history)
Drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 5th round (121st overall) of the 1983 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 30 (3322nd overall since 1950)
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With a mobile phone now an essential item in any ladies' handbag, it's surprising that most of the solar powered bags we've seen up until now have been either backpacks or messenger bags. That's fine for men who generally see bags as a purely functional piece of equipment designed to make it easier to carry things like beer, guns and pornography around. But from what I understand, it's much different for women, for whom the handbag is an extension of their personality and needs to be fashionable as well as practical - and the practicality is probably optional. Danish design studio DIFFUS has done its best to combine the two with its Solar Handbag.Read More
The Leoht Tote could put an end to rummaging in the depths of your handbag for your phone, only to discover the battery is almost dead. Dubbed "the evolution of the handbag" it comes with in-built lithium ion battery and LED lighting, two USB ports and wireless recharging capabilities – and it looks good, too.Read More
Launching a new clothing collection, Platinum Dirt might have just recreated the meaning of the word "vintage." Dustin Page, designer, producer and tailor, has created a range of jackets made of recycled leather from classic cars. Each jacket is one-of-a-kind, made from the leather interiors of old Cadillacs, Lincolns, BMWs, Mercedes and Jaguars (just to name a few). As an added cute touch, the VIN plate from the original vehicle is embedded on the chest of each jacket.Read More
The rapid development of personal entertainment and communication technologies is causing quite seismic changes in the weight the average UK female carries in her handbag. Research conducted for UK Department Store chain Debenhams each year for the last two decades shows that the doubling of weight of the handbag between 2002 and 2006, due to the adoption of laptops, has been completely reversed in just three years by the adoption of smartphones, replacing laptops and filofaxes.Read More
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The state fire marshal's office is investigating the cause of an apartment fire in which a resident died Monday night.
Fire Chief George Brown said Shawna Carney, 45, whom firefighters had rescued after the fire started at Mill Creek Village Apartments on Lockwood Boulevard, died at St. Elizabeth Health Center's Boardman campus.
The exact cause of death was not known late Monday.
The fire broke out at 8:19 a.m. Boardman firefighters were at the three- story building within four minutes of the call, dispatchers said.
The state fire marshal said that his department would not issue a preliminary ruling.
One of the apartment's residents said all she had time to grab was her purse, cellphone and diamond ring.
"A neighbor was banging on the door, but when we went into the hallway, no one was there at first," Lauren Kovach said.
Then several things seemed to happen at once, she said. The smoke detectors wailed, and firefighters appeared at her door, telling her she needed to leave.
She walked outside and looked back at the flames leaping from the roof of 6849 Lockwood Blvd.
"I just felt shock," she said.
"We rescued one victim [Carney]. ... Everyone [was] evacuated," said Boardman Assistant Fire Chief Tim Drummond.
Drummond said that when firefighters arrived, flames were sprouting from the roof. The fire spread from 6849 Lockwood Blvd. to the apartment to the left, 6847, but fire crews had contained it from taking over most of that neighboring building.
"There is a firewall there," Drummond said, which is where firefighters gathered to stop the fire's movement.
Hoses looped throughout the apartment complex's parking lot, and Drummond described the water pressure as "adequate."
Brown said fire crews from Austintown and Canfield assisted, and by about noon, the firefighters had the fire out and were beginning "salvage and overhaul" to make sure nothing was smoldering.
"The firefighters did an outstanding job," Brown said.
The third floor and roof sustained the most damage, though Brown did not describe it as a total loss. The second and first floors of the build- ing have smoke and water damage, but residents should be able to sort through belongings soon, he added.
Kovach said Simco Management Corp, which owns the complex, offered to house her and the dozen or so families who are displaced in a hotel.
"I just want to go back in, just to look," she said of her first-floor apartment.
Eri Raib also lives in the apartment complex, but in a building across the parking lot at 6811 Lockwood Blvd.
She was leaving for work about 8:25 a.m. and once she saw the fire, and the equipment to fight it, she knew she couldn't leave.
"It looked very foggy out. I opened the door and saw two or three firetrucks, and they had laid out their hoses across the parking lot. It looked like flames were on the roof," she said.
The fire made Raib think of how prepared she would be in an emergency.
"I recommend renter's insurance and gathering all of your important documents in one place," she said. "It makes you think about what truly is important. If you had to leave immediately, what would you take?"
It was with disgust that I read an earlier comment maligning the residents and deceased as somehow being less than productive citizens because of where they live and the alleged quality of the apartments construction.
To that person I say "have you no decency sir? At long last have you left no sense of decency?" It's a borrowed quote but bears repeating here.
How about that Biblical thing about not judging lest you be judged?
That person who made that slur is nothing more than an Archie Bunker for the 21st century.
As a retired service technician having worked at several apartment complexes, I am aware of the comments often made about "apartment dwellers". Most such comments are made out of pure ignorance and have very little basis in fact. In my nearly 32 years of working in the rental housing industry, we have had as our residents doctors, lawyers, clergy, business executives and retirees who spent six months per year in their apartments and the other six months in their southern or western condos. Many of our residents have been widows or widowers who no longer wanted the responsibilities of owning and caring for their own real estate.
Stereo-types are usually more a matter of fiction than fact.


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How Alibaba Helps Yahoo Mask Business Woes
By Amir Efrati
Mentions Alibaba Group Holding and Yahoo
Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has done a lot more for Yahoo than boost the company's stock price by 80% over the past year.
Royalties that Alibaba paid to Yahoo for continuing to use the Web brand's name on some Chinese websites, among other things, also made Yahoo's deteriorating core business seem healthier than it was.
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The robust job search is driven not by applying for jobs, but by generating conversations with strategic connections within targeted companies. Simply put, you're talking to folks in an intentional and purposeful way. Recognizing the need to have conversations is the easy part. Knowing what to say during these conversations is - for an inordinate number of job-seekers - bewildering and more than a little intimidating.
The solution to minimizing the anxiety in this process is by first identifying what you want to accomplish from the networking effort. The questions you ask will determine the success of your meetings.
First, consider your informational needs based on advance target company research. Then after you've arranged to meet with your contact, set about preparing questions that will generate the information you need to guide you closer to your goal of getting hired. Don't over-think the task at hand. You're simply setting in motion a plan to gather information.
Following is a sampling of networking questions addressing a variety of informational objectives. Review and customize them to meet your particular job search needs:
Rapport-Building & Intelligence Gathering Questions
• From what you know about me, do you think my objective is a logical next step in my career? Why/Why not?
• How did you get into this kind of work? This company?
• What do you like the most about what you do? About this company?
• If you were in a job search, what would you do?
• What organizations do you belong to? Recommend?
Positioning Questions
• How are positions typically filled in this company?
• What personal qualities and attributes do you look for when you hire someone in my role?
• What characteristics do you most like to find in people who hold this position? Who work for this company?
• When you think about individuals who are most successful in my role, what are the key competencies and qualities that contribute to their success?
Questions If Contact Indicates a Potential Need for Your Talents
• Based on what I know about your company, and what I understand to be the key competencies in this position, I would be interested in being considered for a future opening. What would you suggest I do next?
• Does your company hire people on a contract or part-time basis?
• Who else within this company can you recommend for me to speak to about present or future opportunities with the company?
Referral-Generating & Closing Questions
• Given how you've been so generous with your time, how may I return the favor by helping you in some way?
• Can you recommend other companies that I should add to my target company list?
• Do you have any contacts at these companies? Would you be comfortable facilitating my getting in touch with this person?
• What professional associations, recruiters or networking events can you recommend to me?
• Who else should I be speaking to?
• May I have your business card? Here's mine.
Again, don't over-think what you're going to say as you plan to meet with your contact. Simply remember to be courteous; be professional; be reciprocal – be yourself. And don't forget to follow-up with your contact the outcome of the information that was shared with you.
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You have failed this city
Those were the words Oliver Queen's alter-ego said to those who were on his father's list when he started his crusade when he was known as 'the Vigilante' and/or 'the Hood'.
Now, after two years ago, he finally saved Starling City, but Oliver didn't do it alone. With the help of John Diggle, Felicity Smoak, Sara Lance/the Canary, and protege Roy Harper, Oliver Queen not only righted his family's wrongs, he also righted his own: going from killer to the hero known as the Arrow.
The third season of Arrow will find Oliver Queen trying to reclaim Queen Consolidated following last season's takeover thanks to Slade Wilson/Deathstroke as part of the latter's plan for revenge against his former friend, which culminated with the death of his mother Moira -- furthering the wedge even further between Oliver and his sister Thea, driving her into the arms of her biological father Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer.
Getting his family's company back, though, isn't the only thing Oliver is focusing on, as he and Felicity may go beyond friendship, yet his 'bromance' with Dig may start to strain -- possibly due to Dig's impending fatherhood with girlfriend Lyla Michaels, one of A.R.G.U.S.' top operatives. And speaking of Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S., season three will explore more of her ties to Oliver/Arrow, who's not on the island but in Hong Kong.
Still, this ex-billionaire with superior archery skills will be facing upcoming battles to protect Starling City with the return of Malcolm and a new Count Vertigo.
But that doesn't even compare with the arrival of Ra's al Ghul, the head of the League of Shadows, an elite organization of international assassins that Malcolm and Sara were members of. And speaking of the Canary, she returns this season to lend a hand to the Arrow, as Roy will literally take a page out of his mentor's book.
Arrow begins his aim for season three Wednesday, October 8 at 8pm on the CW.
Check out the Comic-Con teaser for the new season at TVGuide.com.
Suggested Links
- First look of Colton Haynes bringing the 'Arsenal' to 'Arrow' this fall
- 'Arrow' season 3 spoilers: Oliver will face a new villain and more teased
- Brandon Routh comes to 'Arrow', as Robbie Amell returns to the CW in a 'Flash'
- 'Arrow' season 3 spoilers: What's next for Oliver and Felicity and Starling City
- 'Arrow' season 3: Get ready for another look into Oliver's dark past


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A compilation of the best performances from Cash's variety show, which he hosted from '69-'71, including brilliant performances by Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young, and Cash himself.
Following the success of the movie, "Walk the Line," this documentary provides an in-depth look at Cash's successes and failures on the road to stardom.
A stunning biopic of Johnny Cash's life starring Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter. Witherspoon won the Oscar for Best Actress and Phoenix was nominated for Best Actor.


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Support for JSON in JAX-WS at GlassFish
By pelegri on Apr 13, 2007
The JAX-WS project in GlassFish is taking advantage of the pluggable encoding layer in their implementation to provide a JSON binding.
This Implementation is at an early stage and is part of the JAX-WS-commons extensions which also includes such committed extensions as: Spring Support, HTTP Session Scope Service, Thread Scope Service and the JAX-WS Maven 2 plugin.
The JSON binding enables to write code like the following:
@BindingType(JSONBindingID.JSON_BINDING) public class MyService { public Book get() { return new Book(); } public static final class Book { public int id = 1; public String title = "Java"; } }


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I was so excited to join Sarah's guest blogger series "Summer Destinations" on her fab blog Where The Sidewalk Begins. Sarah asked that her collaborators choose a destination and then base a style board around it. Well as you all know, I can never refuse a style board so of course I said YES!Above is the inspiration for my "event"—the Traverse City Film Festival. We're actually headed up north a few times this summer and having missed this the past few years I'm hoping to make a stop! For more info and store credits check out my original post here.


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8-7-1, Finished 1st in NFC North Division · 2013 NFL Season Summary
SRS: Total -3.1, Offense: 0.5, Defense: -3.6, SoS: -2.4, avg is 0.0.
Scored 417 points (26.1/g), 8th of 32 in the NFL. Allowed 428 points (26.8/g), 24th.
Differential of -11 points (-0.7/g), 16th. Expected W-L: 7.8-8.2.
Mike McCarthy (8-7-1)
Offensive Coordinator: Tom Clements
Defensive Coordinator: Dom Capers
Other Notable Asst.: Ben McAdoo (QB Coach), Mike Trgovac (Defensive Line) and Alex Van Pelt (Running Backs)
Stadium: Lambeau Field
Training Camp: St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin)
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The Natural Gas Technology Program at Eastern Gateway Community College will offer the student a comprehensive program which includes classroom, laboratory, and field experiences in natural gas exploration, drilling, well completion, production, processing, and distribution.
The curriculum also includes fundamental courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and related engineering subject matter which will provide the NGT graduate with a strong foundation.
The NGT program will focus on the development of the natural gas reserves in the Appalachian Basin including the Marcellus and Utica Shale. The graduate of the Natural Gas Technology program will be prepared for a rewarding career in this vital energy sector.
Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to:
- Communicate effectively using language and concepts of the oil and gas industry.
- Use the scientific method to define and solve problems independently.
- Use a variety of laboratory techniques with accuracy, precision and safety.
- Interpret scientific information accurately.
- Demonstrate proficient mathematical and computer skills in data gathering and analysis.
Eastern Gateway Community College's Student Success Plan/Assessment is available for view in PDF format.
This information is presented as a general program overview. Students are advised to follow the more detailed college catalog for program requirements.


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A problem over the years in Perl 5 has been that bugs mysteriously get fixed. This is a big problem for two reasons. First, we don't know when a bug is fixed and we are able to close the bug from the RT queue. Second, we don't know if the bug is fixed and then broken again.
I'll be working on getting tests TODO tests created for as many of the existing bugs in the Perl 5 bug queue as possible over the weekend. This is fortunately an easy place for nearly anyone to contribute.


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This just in! City Winery Napa has just announced its lineup of performers for its inaugural Spring/Summer season, and it looks like it's going to be a doozy. Located in the Napa Valley Opera House at 1030 Main Street, City Winery is poised to be the hottest destination for nightlife, wine, and tasty culinary adventures when it opens its doors this April for its "soft launch."
Take a look at what City Winery has planned for the next few months:
- Bruce Cockburn : Thursday, April 10 ($35-45) - The tour supporting Cockburn's 31st album, "Small Source of Comfort."
- Jay Farrar of Son Volt: Wednesday, April 16 ($26-30) - Founder of Uncle Tupelo, leader of Son Volt, and an accomplished solo artist.
- Paris Combo: Thursday, April 17 ($25-35) - Think fun, sexy and mischievous. An upbeat mix of French pop, cabaret, and fun-loving jazz. Can't wait.
- Asleep At The Wheel: Wednesday, May 7 ($30-40) - "The Kings of Texas Swing." Forty years of playing and more than 25 albums.
- Lydia Pense & Cold Blood: Thursday, May 8 ($20-25) - Lydia Pense & Cold Blood debuted when the Fillmore was at its peak as one of the nation's musical Meccas.
- Karla Bonoff: Friday, May 9 ($20-30) - One of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation.
- Allen Toussaint: Friday, May 16 ($25-30) - Grammy nominated artist awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama. One of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B.
- John Mayall: Friday, May 23 ($40-50) - A master of the Blues with a strong boogie woogie influence.
- Leo Kottke: Saturday, May 24 ($30-40) - A masterful guitarist known for his precise fingerpicking, wild syncopation, and polyphonic prowess. This is going to be incredible.
- Maria Muldaur: Friday, May 30 ($15-25) - "Midnight at the Oasis" What more needs to be mentioned?
- Red Molly: Thursday, June 12 ($15-20) - Think three part harmonies, exhilarating musicianship, and a delightful stage presence. Their new CD "Light in the Sky" spent 20 weeks on the Americana Music Association's Top 40 radio chart and charted as Folk DJ's #3 Top Album of 2012.
- Milk Carton Kids: Monday, June 16 ($15-25) - Flat-picking folksy duo with powerful vocals and mellifluous harmonies.
- 10,000 Maniacs: Saturday, June 21 ($40-50) - Eleven new songs, a brand new album and a tour that includes Napa. Joy!
- Lewis Black: July 10, 11, 12 ($55-75) - Highly irascible, and one of the loudest men in comedy. Black will be back in Napa for a three night stint. Epic.
According to City Winery, this new nightlife destination will strive "to deliver the highest-end combined culinary and cultural experience" by hosting "intimate concerts, food and wine classes, private events[…]and fine dining." If the food and wine is as good as the entertainment, the City Winery experience should be legendary. Start planning your entertainment schedule now. Once word gets out about this place, getting tickets may prove challenging.
Tickets go on sale starting January 28, 2014 at noon. Unless otherwise stated, all shows start at 8 p.m. Members of City Winery's VinoFile Club ($75/year includes a $25 coupon for their online wine store) can get tickets 48 hours before everyone else and they don't have to pay service charges. To become a Vinophile member or to purchase tickets call 707-260-1600 or visit www.citywinery.com.


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The No. 11 UMass women's lacrosse team defeated Duquesne 16-8 on Sunday afternoon to win the Atlantic 10 regular-season title and take the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Atlantic 10 Championship Tournament.
No. 11 UMass women's lacrosse ends regular season with undefeated A-10 record for fourth straight season with win over Duquesne : The Daily Collegian


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We all know that coupling costumes is a really fun idea for Halloween. What's even more fun than that?! Group Costumes with 4 or more people! I was thinking about doing this with a few of my friends, but I am having the hardest time deciding which theme we should go for. One of my favorites is the Scooby Doo Group Costumes. You have the Scooby Doo Costume, Shaggy Costume, Daphne Costume, Velma Costume, and the
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I am so excited that they decided to come out with a NEW Halloween Movie directed by Rob Zombie! Me and my friends love horror movies and we're always trying to find new ones that we've never seen before, but of course we always go back to the calssics and watch the old Hellraiser, Freddy, and Exorcist movies for fun. Since this is going to be such an awesome remake, me and my friends want to dress up like our favorite horror movie monsters when we go see it opening weekend. My boyfriend Shawn wanted to be the leading character in the movie so he bought the official Deluxe Michael Meyers Costume along with the Michael Meyers Mask. He of course had to buy
I've been to Disneyland several times within my short life, so for my Birthday me and my friends wanted to make this trip more fun an interesting. We decided to dress up as all of


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Hello, my name is Jedi Anonymous and I'm new to the forums. Im writing about the Jediknight remake for JediOutcast. I heard there was going to be one,but apparently it has disappeared. This was super letdown because, for me, Jediknight seems to have the best storyline and level design. So I'm requesting to some serious modders out there for(at least)a partial remake of Jediknight. Here are some suggestions for 3 different remake versions:large(all important levels)-3rd level, 6th level, 7th level, 9th level, 11th level, 13th level, 14th level, 15th level?!,16th level, and 19th level through the 21st level; medium(Jedi only); and small(last 3 levels).I strongly suggest elaborating on the last level with Jerec(dramatic fighting music). This(if made) would be a gotta have mod that everyone will majorly appreciate. So I strongly encourge the creating of this mod!


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The negotiated state budget agreement, House Bill 1485, passed the PA Senate on a party line vote Tuesday and passed the House Wednesday evening. The Governor signed the agreement Thursday, June 30th.
The budget, which totals $27.15 billion in spending, cuts almost 4% from the total spending of last year. However, many human services and housing programs face much steeper cuts.
An initial look at housing programs, compared to 2010-2011 levels, is below:
- Human Services Development Fund (HSDF): $14.956 million ($23.5 million in FY 2010)
- Homeless Assistance: $20.551 million ($23 million in FY 2010)
- Legal Services: $2.735 million ($3 million in FY 2010)
- Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP): $2 million ($11 million in FY 2010)
- Housing and Redevelopment Assistance (HRA): $0 ($17.5 million in FY 2010)
- Keystone Communities: $12 million (combination of Accessible Housing and New Communities)
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text: Faculty Profile Picture Jonathan Sims Assistant Professor Education B.A., Emory University MBA, University of Maryland Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Academic Division Management Areas of Expertise Strategy Contact Page Content 1Dr. Jonathan Sims joins the Management Division at Babson College in the Fall of 2013 as Assistant Professor of Strategy. Jonathan's research and teaching programs lie at the intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship, and technology innovation. Broadly, he is interested in how entrepreneurial companies develop and implement technology strategies in cooperation with external communities. His doctoral dissertation and continuing research use both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine how entrepreneurial firms work with open source software communities. Jonathan holds a Ph.D. in Management from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University. In 2011, Jonathan was inducted into the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Faculty Honor Roll in recognition for outstanding teaching performance. In 2010, he was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer by the Business Policy and Strategy division of the Academy of Management. Prior to returning to academia, Jonathan was an entrepreneur and independent consultant to both non-profit and for-profit ventures, as well as a program manager for the Office of the CIO at Sony Pictures Entertainment.


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With the Electronic Entertainment Expo, otherwise known as E3, underway this week, it is fair to consider just how Sony and Microsoft will play against each other. Sony's PlayStation 4 is currently outselling Microsoft's Xbox One, but with some changes Microsoft has made to its gaming environment is it still a contender against Sony?
One of the things that differentiated Microsoft's eco-system from Sony's PlayStation Network was that you had to have a paid membership to use any of the extra content that came with the Xbox 360 or Xbox One. That meant, you had to have a paid monthly membership to stream Netflix and Hulu Plus, which you already needed a membership to join.
Sony, on the other hand, kept everything free. You had to pay for games and movies that you downloaded, but you were able to stream anything you liked through the console for free. Competition grew against Microsoft as you were able to view said content over televisions, tablets, smartphones, Blu-ray players and various other devices without having to pay an additional charge.
This month, Microsoft removed their pay wall, which allows users of their Xbox 360 and Xbox One to stream content like Netflix, Twitch, Hulu Plus and other entertainment apps without an Xbox Live Gold Membership. Not to mention, they dropped their price point by $100 to match Sony's $399 by removing the Kinect device that many gamers did not want to begin with. Microsoft's Xbox One is now at the same level that Sony's PlayStation 4 as always been at.
Sony, at their E3 presentation on Monday, announced an add-on to their PlayStation 4 called the PlayStation TV. It is an inexpensive add-on, which will run about $99. On top of that, Sony has many exclusive games that are coming to Sony for their PlayStation 4. As well as their PlayStation Now, which will allow gamers to download older console games and play them on multiple devices logged into their PSN account.
Microsoft has, finally, turned their attention back to gamers, while in their initial promotion of the console focused on it as an "entertainment service." With very limited exclusive content like "Titanfall" or "Halo," the only other benefit is additional downloadable content that will be released on Xbox first then will come to other consoles at a later time. Not an eye-catching incentive to grab people that are on the fence between Microsoft and Sony.
Those people that may be on the fence about which console to get: Sony's PlayStation 4. It has perfected its current business model and is expanding to bring streaming content to consumers and is pushing ahead. Microsoft has taken a step backward in making their business model similar to Sony but they are playing catch up, as opposed to innovating. If you were holding out for an Xbox One due to price, now is the time to jump on it. Although, Sony is still the better option due to their forward thinking and not fixing their outdated business ideology.


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Things to see and do - Penelokan
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Penelokan : Michelin's recommendations
All the roads which climb up to the crest of the caldera lead to Penelokan, making it a major stop on the tourist trail and therefore the scene of endless bids to sell you something. That said, the view over the giant crater, Mt Batur and the lake is astounding. Get your fill of the view and then be on your way to your next destination...


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Thor Aackerlund won it all in the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, a national video gaming tour where players across the country went at it on a special three-game contest that included Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer and Tetris, only to walk away from the video gaming spotlight a year later.
Now the Carrollton, TX resident has returned to the gaming spotlight. As one of the featured gamers in an upcoming Tetris documentary film, Thor now stands at the top of the scoreboard on Tetris at Twin Galaxies and is listed in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition book now in stores.
Thor's return to gaming started a few years back.
"It all started with a dedicated group of classic Nintendo fans graciously letting me come visit an Expo in 2008 as a guest," Thor said. "It was pretty surreal, the first appearance I've made related to gaming in almost 20 years."
The lasting effect of the 1990 Nintendo contest then continued for Thor.
"Shortly after that, Robin Mihara, one of the greatest competitors of the 1990 NWC also got in contact with the community, and it wasn't long before a spark of inspiration turned into a full-fledged 2010 championship and documentary about classic Tetris," said Thor. "I was a bit reluctant at first, but the quality and cameraderie of the players and those involved inspired me a bit at a time to get back into the game."
Today, original Nintendo World Championship cartridges are among the most valuable video game collectibles in history, and other memorabilia from the once-in-a-lifetime event are also highly sought after. For Thor, his big victory came at the end of a long line of challenges.
"I never really thought about it. It was very surreal at the time, but the contest followed a period in my life that was really hard, our house in The Colony, TX burned down the year before, and my mother had an attack of ventricular tachycardia that left her very lucky to be alive and a very long hospital stay and rehabilitation period," Aackerlund recalled. "In the end it was a small bright spot in the midst of a lot of hardship and transition."
In the 20 years between gaming contests, Thor recalled numerous events in his life away from a video screen.
"I've become a father, which is the most important thing in the world to me," Thor said. "Other than that, I've worked primarily in the computer industry. I lived in North Carolina for a while, but most of my adult life has been spent here in North Texas. In my younger and stronger years I was heavily into what is now called Mixed Martial Arts, training in Boxing, Thai Boxing, with a little bit of wrestling as well."
"A catastrophic bike wreck nearly killed me in the summer of 1996, I was very lucky to live at all, let alone be able to see, walk, and talk again, so that was the end of those ambitions. I'm grateful for every day I'm given."
Thor is currently participating in a contest by a local auto dealer to win a large-screen television by playing a flash-based version of Tetris. He is ranked in first place as of this writing, and is making plans for other video gaming accomplishments.
"My son is now 4 years old, so I'm looking forward to being able to get his help in some co-op games sometime soon!" Thor stated. "I hope he has as much fun as I always did with them. As for personal goals, I want to help represent the old timers from the NWC with a few decent Tetris records if I can perform well enough to honor that interesting and unique moment in history."
Thor is also considering a trip to famed New Hampshire arcade Funspot during it's annual tournament in June, with the record on the coin-op classic version of Tetris in his sights.
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Lubov M. Bodnar (nee Hurko), 85, passed away Tuesday, July 30, 2013.
The beloved wife of the late Volodymyr; loving mother of Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak (Michael) and Dr. Myron Bodnar (Marta); cherished grandmother of Larissa Irma and Natalia Sophia.
Friends may call at The Kolodiy-Lazuta Funeral Home, 5677 State Rd., Parma, Thursday, August 1, 2013 from 6 to 8 P.M. Parastas will be at 7 P.M. Funeral liturgy will be Friday, August 2, 2013 at Pokrova Ukrainian Catholic Church, 6812 Broadview Rd., Parma at 10 A.M. (Please meet at church). Interment will be at Pokrova Cemetery.


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TUCSON, Ariz. ?- The No. 15 Arizona volleyball team (9-1, 1-0) opened Pac-10 play with a sweep (30-24, 30-22, 30-22) of Oregon State at McKale Center this evening. The Wildcats out-hit the Beavers .283 to .097 and out-blocked them 12-2.
"There wasn't much energy or excitement tonight," Head Coach David Rubio said. "We basically gave them half of their points in errors (34 out of 68)."
Senior Jennifer Abernathy led all players with 18 kills. She also added six digs, three blocks and two service aces. Senior Kim Glass finished with 17 kills and nine digs, just shy of a double-double. She also had four blocks.
Senior Bre Ladd tallied 10 kills on 16 attempts with just one error for a .562 hitting percentage. Sophomore Dominique posted a match-high six blocks, while fellow sophomore Amy Dyck dished out 48 assists on the night.
"Amy was okay ?- she's on a steep learning curve," Rubio noted. "Everything runs through the setting position. I feel that it is more important than the quarterback and point guard positions in football and basketball, respectively."
After trailing early in game one, Arizona used a 5-0 run to take a 6-2 lead and never looked back, leading by as many as 11. The Wildcats went on to win 30-24. Arizona hit .372 on the game and held the Beavers to .175. Glass led the Wildcats with eight kills on .538 hitting, while Leonard had nine digs on the game.
After scoring the first three points of game two, the Beavers tied the game at five, forcing Rubio into a time out. Arizona scored the first three points out of the time out en route to a 30-22 win. The Wildcats out-hit Oregon State .089 to .000 and out-blocked the Beavers 5-1. Abernathy had six kills to lead Arizona, followed by Glass with five.
The Wildcats led by six (7-1) in game three, but Oregon State battled back to tie it at 15 and took the lead on the next point. However, Arizona then used a 9-3 run to take a 24-19 lead. The Wildcats went on to win 30-22. Abernathy notched seven kills on the game to lead all players.
Arizona hosts Oregon (10-2, 0-1) for a 7 p.m. match tomorrow, Sept. 24, at McKale. "Oregon is bigger and more physical," Rubio said. ?'They match up with us better and will probably present us with more problems than OSU."


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it just says play dvd now
Hello i flashed my BENQ drive and everything went well. didnt have any problems but after i flashed my drive now my drive doesnt want to read anygames even "legal" ones..i got keys and everyhing could you please tell me what did i do wrong?
it just says play dvd now
you may have done a bad flash because it shouldnt do that, are you sure everything went fine? you put the correct firmware on?
i think "play dvd" happens when you don't spoof the key to the new firmware maybe someone can confirm???
Sounds like you haven't spoofed the key, have you still got the original key?
yes i was finally smart enough to save the key thank you guys for response. when i go home i am gonna try it again .aah cant wait i till get off my job but yeah thank you guys again i will let you know how did it go
guys i did try to put spoofed key and jungle flash froze on me. so now my drive wont even open
use dos flash buddy that will see you right.
did it freeze during a write or something?
yes it did froze during 3rd line on Writing so computer doesnt see drive anymore and xbox just blinks when i turn it on
yea its bricked, but not dead.
the dvd drive has no firmware on it, its fixable.
dos flash may work : lt-lite-touch-download/dosflash-t15.html
but it has not personally happened to me so i cant be certain.
now it is sayin error e64... i am not havin a luck with this son of a bitch


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Holden Caulfield is the legendary focus of the legendary book The Catcher in the Rye written by legendary author J.D. Salinger. That, by anyone's account, is a lot of pressure.
I first read Salinger's masterpiece (it has been included in top 100 books of all time lists for decades) right out of high school. The novel (Little and Brown) first appeared in 1951. By the time I got to it in 1972, it was the classic coming of age story.
If you haven't read it or it's been a while, Holden narrates his experiences after being expelled from prep school. This is a privileged kid and it's not the first school. He has money in his pocket and knows his way around New York. He is also lost and confused. Holden uses terrible language, making him relatable to some and repellent to others. The book has been a target of censors and church groups, but swearing is an important part of Holden's character. He cannot find words in the same way he cannot understand feelings.
Told in first person, you interpret the world through Holden's eyes. At 17, I felt his anger and anguish at the different people and situations he encounters. More than 40 years later, I question his choices and wonder about what drives them instead of merely accepting them.
He knows his parents will be angry and disappointed and is afraid to go home. On a deeper level, he believes his parents have always been angry and disappointed in him. "Favorite" son Allie is dead. His little sister Phoebe "knocks him out" but Holden is sure they love her more. Oldest brother D.B. is a successful writer out in Hollywood. Every sibling does it better and Holden knows it and suffers over it.
It is a different book later in life, but still a brilliantly crafted character study. Salinger is true to Holden until the end - that is not an end. I have wondered what happened to the boy. Did he ever develop any sense of self worth? Did he finish school? Did he live?
Salinger and Holden were fellow New Yorkers. They both attended private schools and managed the fencing team. Both had trouble fitting in. J.D. Salinger lived a life away from the spotlight and died in 2010 at the age of 91. He was as enigmatic as his most famous character.
I wasn't as rattled as I was the first time I read The Catcher in the Rye, but I'm glad I did it again.
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At last, I finally got my hands on a boxed and mint MB-23 battery pack for my F4. Finding anything for the F4 in mint condition these days takes time, but if you wait long enough you'll find it.
The Nikon F4 was a 35mm autofocus (AF) single lens reflex (SLR) film camera, first introduced in 1988 as the next generation in Nikon's line of F series professional cameras. With industrial design by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the F4 was the first professional Nikon to offer autofocus and is able to accept any of Nikon's manual focus (MF) or AF lenses from 1959 to the present day, including the two F3AF lenses (in Autofocus mode). The F4 replaced the F3, which was a manual focus camera produced from 1980 to 2001. Nikon introduced its next flagship model, the F5, in 1996. All F4 models were discontinued soon after in May 1997.
The F4 introduced many Nikon owners to autofocus (as well as focus tracking), and was the first professional Nikon to utilize a vertical-travel metal-blade shutter (with shutter balancer to minimize noise and camera bounce). As a fully electronic camera with motorized film transport (up to 5.7 frames per second), it required one of three available bottom-mounted battery packs to operate, using standard AA or rechargeable cells. For the first time on a Nikon SLR, two of those battery packs also offered an additional vertical shutter release button and grip for using the camera vertically.
Its controls were transitional between those of mechanical SLRs and future professional film and digital SLRs: the F4's electronics, LCD viewfinder display, autofocus, programmed auto-exposure, and matrix meter looked to the future, but it also retained classic dedicated analog dials for shutter speed, lens aperture, metering pattern, and exposure compensation.
The F4 was the first Nikon F-series camera to lack a manual film-advance lever, though it offered both motor-driven and manual film rewinding. Like previous F-series cameras, the F4 featured a high degree of customization to specific tasks, with various remote controls, film backs, and viewfinders available. While it was a complex camera with over 1700 parts, the F4's high-quality mechanical and electronic components, as well as weather sealing and tough construction, made for a reliable and long-lived professional SLR.
The F4 will accept all autofocus lenses made for the F mount, as well as almost all manual focus F mount lenses excluding some very early fisheye lenses. The meter coupling cam can be moved out of the way for use with lenses manufactured prior to 1977 (non-AI lenses). The F4 is one of the few Nikon cameras offering full Matrix metering with AI manual focus lenses.
Its lack of electronic aperture control limits the F4's functionality with G type lenses, which do not have an aperture ring. With these lenses, exposure control is limited to program and shutter-priority modes. In addition, DX lenses are not designed to cover the full 35mm frame and will vignette when used with the F4 (or any other 35mm camera). The F4 also provides no support for Nikon's later VR (Vibration Reduction) system; VR-equipped lenses will mount and function, but without image stabilization.
Eventually Nikon had three F4 models that were distinguished by which integrated battery pack was attached. All F4 bodies are interchangeable with all battery packs. Therefore none of the cameras includes a label for its particular model name—all use a simple "F4″ nameplate:
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"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
These words found in our Declaration of Independence were used by the Signers to describe King George's efforts to undercut freedom in the colonies. They aptly describe the modern swarm of new offices like the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Forestry Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Tennessee Valley Authority, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation chipping away at private property rights and personal freedom.
The "Officers" sent out by our own would be King Obama dictate when, if, and how public land may be used. They use their strong armed enforcers in the Environmental Protection Agency to steal private property or limit its use. The modern day "Progressive" Red Coats continue to eat out our substance and harass our people.
"People are tired of federal bureaucracy and it's agencies wasting America's tax dollars. How can we possibly have a productive economy when the government is keeping all our resources from us? Federal Government should not be in the land business. These lands need to be returned to the states." Robert Gordon of the Heritage Foundation
The FedGov land barons own 1.6% of the land in Alabama. They own 650,000,000 acres in the U.S. overall. 30% of the land in our nation is owned by the powers that be. This acreage equals a land mass greater than Germany, France, Spain, and Italy combined. They control vast expanses of the West and William Jasper in the article Feds vs. the West details the extent of their lust for control:
- Nevada - 84.5%
- Alaska - 69.1%
- Utah - 57.4 %
- Oregon - 53.1%
- Idaho - 50.2%
- Arizona - 48.1%
- California - 45.3%
- Wyoming - 42.4%
- New Mexico - 41.8%
- Colorado - 36.6%
- Washington - 30.3%
- Montana - 29.9%
Alabama made history regarding the "equal standing" or "equal footing" in the 1845 Supreme Court decision Pollard v. Hagan. In it the court stated:
"The United States never held any municipal sovereignty, jurisdiction, or right of soil in and for the territory, of which Alabama or any of the new states were formed, except for temporary purposes, and to execute the trusts created by the acts of the Virginia and Georgia legislatures, and the deeds of cession executed by them to the United states, and the trusts created by the treaty with the French republic of the 30th of April, 1803, ceding Louisiana.... Alabama is, therefore, entitled to the sovereignty and jurisdiction over all the territory within her limits, subject to the common law, to the same extent that Georgia possessed it, before she ceded it to the United States. To maintain any other doctrine, is to deny that Alabama has been admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states, the constitution, laws, and compact, to the contrary not withstanding."
We recently saw the deadly extent that the federal land barons will go to acquire a monopoly on the land. The paramilitary raid on the Bundy Ranch in Nevada was a display of government out of control. Two hundred heavily armed and militarized dragoons from the Bureau of Land Management ran roughshod over the Bundy family, their supporters, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
The government propagandists and their willing lackeys in the media went above and beyond to vilify and demonize the Bundy family. Mr. Bundy was called a racist, redneck tea bagger, domestic terrorist, welfare rancher, crackpot, wing nut rancher, etc... in order to deviate attention away from the tyrannical behavior. They turned a blind eye to the Gestapo tactics of militarized park rangers.
William Jasper in The New American article "Showdown on the Range" explained the truth about "public" lands. The "split estate" is where ownership is split between surface rights (water, grazing, timber, and wildlife) and subsurface rights (minerals, oil, and gas). These are divided among the federal government, state governments, private citizens, and corporations.
Land use laws in the West come under the Prior Appropriations Water Doctrine. Under this doctrine the person acquiring title to the water has the right to use it. These rights were bought or inherited. The government cares nothing about the law whether it's the Constitution, Posse Comitatus, or water and property rights.
Mr. Bundy being a rancher put the land to productive use and produced food for our tables, jobs for citizens, tax revenue, and maintained the land. This is more than can be said about any government owned acreage.
The late Wayne Hage was another rancher who was targeted by the Bureau of Land Management. He explained the public land myth in an interview with The New American magazine in 2006. He stated that:
"The term "public lands" has been erroneously applied to these lands. I say erroneously because the United States Supreme Court held in Bardon v. Northern Pacific Railway Company that "lands to which rights and claims of another attach do not fall within the classification of public lands." Rights and claims of ranchers to water rights and grazing easements (range rights) cover virtually all these lands. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the rancher's grazing allotments cannot be public lands."
Hage speaking on "grazing permits" told the TNA that:
"The truth is that a rancher is not required to have a grazing permit. The grazing permit should be more accurately called a grazing management permit. It is a cooperative permit whereby the rancher permits the U.S. Forestry Service or Bureau of Land Management to manage his private range rights in return for the rancher being permitted to participate in the range improvement fund for capital expenditures. When the federal agency cancels a grazing permit, as the did in my case, they cancelled my ability to participate in the range improvement fund, but they also cancelled any authority to manage my private range and water rights."
Instead of using these fees to manage the lands in question the BLM and other agencies are using them to wage a war of attrition against farmers, ranchers, land owners, etc... They utilize pseudo-science to regulate American citizens into bankruptcy. They run a racket that would make the mob green with envy.
Out of the 50 ranchers that once worked the land in Nevada; Cliven Bundy is the last. This true American cowboy has refused to bend, bow, or break to bureaucratic thugs. He is a saddle sore to the draconian minded pencil pushers who have conspired with radical environmentalists to eradicate freedom minded self-reliant individuals out of the West.
The true motives behind the eagerness to drive out Mr. Bundy was revealed at the March 1991 Public Interest Law Conference at the University of Oregon School of Law. Roy Elicker, counsel for the National Wildlife Federation outlined the plan to break the backs of ranchers:
"...if they got to go out and move that cow around six times, by the time they're done, they've lost their shirt. You can win more victories by making him pay for what he does out there and by making it so expensive in his operation and making all these changes for him to continue to run the cattle on public lands, he goes broke.
Our fellow Americans are in the cross hairs of a government out of control. Freedom loving Alabamians cannot sit idly by as pompous bureaucrats form paramilitary units for the sole purpose of trampling upon the Constitution and American citizens. The Bundy family had two bulls ($5,000 each), one calf and six cows ($2,200 a head) shot as well as personal property i.e.water tanks, water pumps, and corrals ($100,000) maliciously destroyed by badge wearing thugs. These were deplorable actions more fitting of the KGB or Stasi than U.S. law enforcement. Their actions were a textbook example of tyranny in action. It is time for Alabamians to wake up, stand up, and speak up against such abuses of power. You may not care about politics but that does not mean politicians care about your rights and liberties. Enough is enough of turning blind eyes to our waning rights.


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The couple was renting a home and had recently asked to pave over the spot where a body was later found.
Last week authorities went to the house looking for a missing two-year-old girl from Florida, and found her.
They also found an eleven-year-old boy locked in a closet and what's presumed to be his 36-year-old mother's body, buried behind the house.
The boy and his 15-year-old sister told police their mother went missing around Memorial Day.
Twenty-five-year-old Michael Sisk and 23-year-old Candace Clark, both formerly of Kentucky, and a third woman, were arrested in the case.
Henderson Kentucky Police Sergeant John Nevels said Clark moved to Henderson in 2005 and Sisk was a long-time Henderson County resident.


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EUGENE, Ore. -- Oregon fell to fifth-ranked UCLA on Saturday, competing against a top five ranked opponent for the second time in as many days. The Bruins downed Oregon, 4-0, at the Student Tennis Center.
After defeating Hawaii earlier in the week, head coach Nils Schyllander's squad opened Pac-12 play with the brunt of the schedule. Playing top-ranked USC and No. 5 UCLA in consecutive days, UO's 11-match winning streak came to an end despite high efforts in both matches.
"We clawed our way back into a lot of matches and I was proud of the way they played to win, but unfortunately they didn't," said Schyllander. "We were in a great position in doubles but backed off a bit when we were about to close it out. That definitely took some momentum away from us heading into singles."
The match opened with a vital doubles point coming down to the wire. After Oregon took an advantage by winning No. 2 doubles, the remaining two matches came down to a nerve-wracking finish. The Bruins won the final two games to win No. 3 doubles and leveled the match. Meanwhile, senior Robin Cambier and sophomore Kevin Farin's thrilling No. 1 doubles match went into a tiebreaker. UCLA's Marcos Giron and Karue Sell prevailed, 8-7 (7-2), to take a 1-0 lead.
Junior Joey Swaysland and sophomore Daan Maasland earned UO's lone doubles win, downing Clay Thompson and Joseph Di Giulio, 8-5. The Ducks took a two-game lead in the match and were able to maintain that cushion all the way through. Maasland and Swaysland improve to 11-1 in spring doubles.
UCLA won three singles matches in straight sets to clinch the team victory, and elected to leave the remaining matches unfinished.
After defeating the third-ranked player in the country, Ray Sarmiento, Friday in a loss to USC, Cambier was in the mix for another big win against a ranked opponent. Cambier dropped his first set against sixth-ranked Giron, 6-3. The Brussels, Belgium, native took a 5-2 lead in the second set to seize momentum, but the match was left unfinished once UCLA clinched the team win.
Cambier has a team-best 20-4 singles record this season. His 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, win over Sarmiento clinched his fourth straight 20-win singles season.
UCLA took a 2-0 lead in the match with a win in No. 1 singles. Against the top-ranked player in the country, Clay Thompson, Farin won four games in each set in a quality showing, albeit in a loss. The Bruins added to their advantage with a win in No. 4 singles before clinching the team win in No. 3 singles.
Cambier, freshman Jayson Amos and Swaysland each had their singles matches left unfinished.
"We fought our hardest and were in every match this weekend, and I was proud that we never looked out of it," said Amos. "We played well and had our chances. I thought it was a much closer match than the score indicated."
The Ducks return to action next week, hosting their final two home matches of the season. UO will meet Utah on Friday, April 4, at 1:30 p.m. (PST). The Ducks host Arizona on Saturday, April 5, at 1:30 p.m. before playing their final four matches away from home.
No. 5 UCLA (15-2) 4, No. 27 Oregon (14-3) 0
1. Giron/Sell (UCLA) def. Cambier/Farin (ORE) 8-7 (7-2)
2. Swaysland/Maasland (ORE) def. Thompson/DiGiulio (UCLA) 8-5
3. McDonald/Brymer (UCLA) def. Sardu/Amos (ORE) 8-6
Order of finish: 2, 3, 1
1. #1 Clay Thompson (UCLA) def. Kevin Farin (ORE) 6-4, 6-4
2. #110 Robin Cambier (ORE) vs. #6 Marcos Giron (UCLA) 3-6, 5-2, unfinished
3. #33 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) def. Daan Maasland (ORE) 6-1, 7-5
4. #73 Gage Brymer (UCLA) def. Daniel Sardu (ORE) 6-4, 6-0
5. Joey Swaysland (ORE) vs. #83 Karue Sell (UCLA) 4-6, 2-4, unfinished
6. Jayson Amos (ORE) vs. Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) 6-7 (5), 1-2, unfinished
Order of finish: 1, 4, 3


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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Mortality Quotes in The Lovely Bones
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Heading north on First, she could tick off all the places she'd formerly stopped and stood, certain that she'd found a spot where a woman or girl had been killed. (18.9)
Ruth, as a result of deep interest and being touched by ghost Susie, exists on a plane where she can understand these crime scenes. New York City becomes a map of the places where women and girls were killed. Like Susie, Ruth focuses on female victims.
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A moment later, the icicle fell. They heavy coldness of it threw him off balance just enough for him to stumble and pitch forward. I would be weeks before the snow in the ravine melted enough to uncover him. (Epilogue.30)
We feel like Susie helped the icicle fall, but there's just no way to know! How frustrating. What do you think? What or who makes the icicle fall? Does it just fall by itself?


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In Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," Denzel Washington's character, Frank Lucas, is a ruthless drug lord who launches an empire with a popular product while his competition struggles to adapt to the changing market.
Sound familiar? Kind of? Well, there are some parallels between the career of Lucas (a real-life dealer in the 1970s) and Jay-Z's rise in the rap game. Jay said last week that seeing "American Gangster" led him to write a new album inspired by the film , with each song being his interpretation of various scenes from the movie, which comes out November 2.
"It was like I was watching the film and putting it on pause and giving a back story to the story," he told The New York Times. "Watching that film, it brought back all these memories. It took me back to those emotions." (While his album is also called American Gangster and also comes out in November — on the 6th, to be precise — it is not the film's official soundtrack.)
To be sure, there are parallels. Lucas was mentored by the notorious Bumpy Johnson, a powerful force in his own right before he succumbed to a fatal heart attack in 1968. Before Jay ascended to the top slot, he sharpened his skills trading rhymes with the Notorious B.I.G., arguably the top MC in the game before his death by gunfire. (Jaz-O and Big Daddy Kane both mentored Jay as well.)
According to the flick, Lucas muscled in a new way to do business in Harlem, New York, modeled after the Mafia. For his part, Jay's rhymes were groundbreaking for their time, lush and filled with vivid accounts of his drug-dealing past.
There's also the matter of "Blue Magic." For Jay, it's the name of the first single from American Gangster. For Washington's character, it's the name of his unusually pure narcotic.
In a memorable scene in the film, referenced in the tail end of Jay's track, Lucas crosses paths with another famous Harlem hustler, Nicky Barnes (played by Cuba Gooding Jr. and the subject of an upcoming Damon Dash documentary titled "Mr. Untouchable"), whom he lectures about the importance of paying attention to and protecting your brand — lessons that Jay obviously learned early in his career. (Take that, Dame!)
Frankly, however, that's pretty much where the Jay-Z/ Frank Lucas comparisons end, and even in the song, Jay is flexible with the parallels. The movie is set in the '70s/heroin era of Harlem, and Jay's track is about the '80s/crack era of Brooklyn.
The latter period also figures heavily in Jay's lyrics: "Whatever, hundred for the diamond chain/ Can't you tell that I came from the dope game?/ Blame Reagan for making me into a monster/ Blame Oliver North and Iran-Contra/ I ran contraband that they sponsored/ Before this rhyming stuff we was in concert."
Ultimately, it seems, rather than Jay comparing his own life directly with Lucas', aesthetically perhaps he wanted to return to the time in his life that's similar but long behind him — hard as it is to reconcile the slick hustler he used to be with the millionaire CEO he is now.
And as Lucas says in the film: "My man!"
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Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair (HR 2057)
The Issue: Modern cars and light trucks contain advanced technology that monitors or controls virtually every function of the vehicle including brakes, steering, air bags, fuel delivery, ignition, and more. Car owners and independent shops need full access to the information, parts and tools necessary to accurately diagnose, repair or re-program these systems.
Vehicle manufacturers are making access to such vital information increasingly difficult and costly to obtain for independent repair shops and their customers. Without access to critical information, parts and tools, motorist are forced to patronize new car dealerships, which may not be convenient or easily accessible to a car owner.
The Impact: By allowing access to this information and giving motor vehicle owners the right to choose how and where their vehicles are repaired, small and independent businesses will be better able to compete in today's marketplace. Motor vehicle owners will be able to exercise their right to have their vehicles repaired by someone they choose. The adoption of this bill will allow independent repair facilities to compete in a level playing field and foster healthy, fair competition. This legislation gives consumers in the U.S. alternatives to repair their vehicles and guarantees access to cost effective recycled auto parts.
Right to Repair would not affect the dealer's warranty agreement with the vehicle manufacturers, and it would not require manufacturing processes or trade secrets unless that information is made available to the new car dealer.
ARA Position: The Automotive Recyclers Association urges Congress to support "The Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act" to:
For additional information, contact ARA Government Affairs at (571) 208-0428 or e-mail email@example.com.