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AG118: Less is Morrison
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Less is Morrison (ライバル登場!マサムネとダンバル!! The Rival Enters! Morrison and Belldum!!) is the 26th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang is having lunch. Ash quickly eats his lunch, as he needs to teach Snorunt to use Ice Beam properly. May also wants to train her Pokémon, but is angry when sees Munchlax eating all of her Pokémon's food, but suddenly, it goes away. Snorunt goes to use Ice Beam, but fails. Suddenly, Ash catches a sandwich and a guy comes yelling to give his sandwich. However, as he was running down a slope, he bangs to a tree. As Ash goes to give his sandwich, they see Munchlax eating it in an instant. The guy screams and tells them "he fells better now." The guy introduces himself as Morrison, who wants to go to the Hoenn League. Ash introduces himself, as he also wants to win the League.
Morrison also tells him he plans to become the Pokémon Master, just as Ash wants. However, they begin to argue, so the decision is to have the battle. Ash sends Pikachu and Morrison a Beldum. Beldum starts with Take Down, but Pikachu dodges and uses Quick Attack. Beldum uses Take Down once more (as it is the only attack it knows). Pikachu evades and counterattacks with Thunderbolt. Beldum charges with Take Down, so Pikachu dodges, but this time Beldum attacks Pikachu and hits him. Pikachu is knocked out, but stands up and goes away as another Take Down is initiated, but Beldum hurts Pikachu again. Beldum uses Take Down once more and Pikachu counters with Iron Tail, but both Pokémon are defeated.
Both trainers go to their Pokémon, as both lost. Morrison thinks as he has more badges than Ash does - he has seven of them. However, Brock tells him that the Hoenn League is 2 months before it starts, shocking Morrison. Ash shows his and Morrison counts all 7 badges. Morrison goes away, to get the final badge. Munchlax is not seen again. Team Rocket is starving, having only one cookie. James thinks they need to split it, but Jessie tells them they need to play rock, scissors and paper. Unsurprisingly, they fail, but they do notice their cookie gone. Team Rocket begins to suspect someone in the group stole it and they fight. However, Munchlax stole the cookie. May calls it back and wonders what it should do with it. Brock proposes the May's purple surprise, but May thinks it is like feeding a bottomless hole.
They found Pokémon Center, but Morrison as well. Morrison tells them there is no need to rush and there is no Gym on the island, so goes to the Center to give Beldum a rest. Ash goes to do with Pikachu the same. Ash and Morrison walk and begin to run, having a contest. However, the result is banging themselves on the counter near Nurse Joy. Joy takes Pikachu and Beldum to treatment. At night, Ash goes to eat, so Morrison tells him he can eat twenty of them. Ash raises the stakes and Morrison does the same. During the bath time, Ash goes to go with Max and Brock, but Morrison tells him he can't overcome the heat, so they both go deeper into the hot water. Morrison turns the heat up and soon they drown. Next, they are seen cooling down and Joy gives Morrison and Ash the Pokémon they gave for treatment. Morrison and Ash give her all their Pokémon for treatment.
Ash thinks it is time for sleep and Morrison goes to do the same - outside. May asks if it isn't dangerous to sleep on a tree, but Morrison tells Beldum takes care of him. He asks if anyone wants to sleep on the tree, so Ash accepts this offer. Morrison sends Beldum who pulls him up. Ash tells that he has Pikachu who will keep him, but falls down, though Beldum catches him. Next, Ash ties a net, like Morrison to sleep. Ash admits it is good to sleep on the tree, so Morrison tells him that he has a lot of friends - Beldum, the leaves, stars and the wild Pokémon. At the morning, May mixes the berries for "her pink surprise" (a recipe made by Prof. Oak) and gives it to Munchlax. Munchlax eats and has its belly full. Max tells it that he has a lot of them, so it needs to ask. However, Munchlax is asleep.
Ash and Morrison search for a field to train. Unsurprisingly, they both picked the same spot and begin to argue. They begin to arm wrestle and both won and lost. So, they go to race to the top of the mountain. Team Rocket spots them and Meowth sees Beldum and thinks it would massage their boss after a long day, so James and Jessie are convinced to capture it. Ash trips over and falls down. Morrison begins to laugh at him, but falls down as well. Their stomachs begin to growl and seeing an apple, they race to get it. Still, each one gets a half of the apple and they both admit the other one is good. Suddenly, their Pokémon are stolen and they are trapped inside a cage - Team Rocket arrives. Team Rocket flies away on the balloon, so Ash and Morrison try to go out of the cage by smashing and tackling it, but with no effect.
They charge together and escape the cage. They charge to jump across a gap. Morrison begins to fall, but Ash got his hand and pulls him up. Ash and Morrison charge and get to the top of the balloon. Morrison and Ash pop the balloon up by bitting on the ears. Ash and Morrison demand their Pokémon, but Jessie and James know they have no Pokémon. This doesn't stop them and they fight using themselves. Jessie sends Seviper, who uses Poison Tail. Ash and Morrison stand up and use take down. James sends Cacnea, who uses Sandstorm to push them. Seviper wraps Ash and Morrison and pushes them down. Ash and Morrison stand up once more and charge towards Seviper and Cacnea, tackling them - they are pushed on the cage and Pikachu and Beldum are free. Team Rocket does not give up as well - Seviper goes to bite and Cacnea attacks with Pin Missile. Pikachu hops on Beldum - Seviper and Cacnea miss. Beldum charges with Take Down to Cacnea and Pikachu uses Iron Tail on Seviper. Pikachu attacks them with Thunderbolt and Beldum blasts them off with Take Down.
Morrison and Ash congratulate each other and their Pokémon. Morrison goes on a ship to get the eight badge, while the gang needs to go to Slateport City for the Grand Festival. Ash and Morrison promise to meet each other in the Hoenn League.
- This episode's name is a pun to the statement "Less is more."
- Featured Pokémon: Trapinch, Noctowl, Loudred
|Pokémon: Advanced Generation
|Other series: The Original · Advanced Generation · Diamond & Pearl · Best Wishes! · XY


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The James Logan High boys basketball team used its size to create second-chance opportunities and earn a 74-63 win over visiting Granada in Tuesday's North Coast Section Division I playoff opener.
The Colts' 6-foot-7 junior Marquis Godfrey had 22 points and 16 rebounds and 6-5 junior K'hari Leno added 16 points and eight rebounds as No. 8 seed Logan (19-9) advances to No. 1 San Leandro (23-3) on Friday at 7 p.m.
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Godfrey had a terrific first half with 14 points, nine rebounds and four blocks. He also provided a pair of highlights during a 12-2 run that helped the Colts take a halftime lead.
Godfrey secured his second putback dunk of the night, then got the crowd riled up with a one-handed jam off a nifty assist from Trenton Torain. That gave Logan a 37-27 lead with just over 2 minutes left in the half and the Colts took a 39-33 lead into the break.
"Dunking is a real crowd-pleaser and gives us a lot of momentum," Godfrey said. "It just gets everybody involved."
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The Colts led 62-54 entering the fourth quarter and the Matadors never got closer than six points.
Chad Schaper chipped in with 13 points for Logan and Torain added 12.
Colin Sommerhauser led Granada with 19 points.
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Alameda's Chris Bussey scored 15.
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Foothill 41, Mission San Jose 31: The man-to-man defense of the host Falcons (15-12) allowed the No. 10 seed Warriors (16-11) only 11 field goals in the game as No. 7 seed Foothill moves on to the North Coast Section Division I quarterfinals.
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City leaders on Tuesday will begin reviewing a developers' proposal to build the entertainment hub across from the new stadium as soon as late this decade.
Developers want to pave over part of the city-owned Santa Clara Golf & Tennis Club and a nearby BMX track and replace it with a "vibrant city center" on a property five times the size of San Jose's Santana Row and 10 times the size of the new stadium site.
Related California, an affiliate of Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross' $15 billion Related Companies, is set to receive exclusive rights to negotiate a lease of the land from the city and eventually would foot the bill for several hundred million dollars in private funding. The company already has the initial backing of the 49ers, Montana and top city leaders.
"This is exactly what we expected would happen after we built the stadium," Mayor Jamie Matthews said Monday, noting 49ers fans, Great America theme-parkgoers and others "need to have some other reason to come there."
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Matthews said the city, as with the Montana proposal, decided to pick Related for exclusive negotiations because it did not want to miss an opportunity to strike while the iron is hot with an interested, experienced developer. But others think the site should be opened up for everyone to bid on.
"How do they know what's in the best interest of the city if they don't explore all the possibilities and put (the site) out to bid?" said Deborah Bress, a spokeswoman for Santa Clara Plays Fair, an anti-stadium group that opposes the current city administration "Put it to a (public) vote."
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An early morning fire at a Kelly Middle School computer lab has shuttered the facility at least through Monday and caused heavy water damage to 30 classrooms, school district officials said.
Business Administrator Athena Nagel said the blaze broke out about 3:30 a.m. in a second-floor science lab, where a computer sparked and set off the building's sprinkler systems.
Firefighters had the incident contained shortly afterward, but had to break two windows in the classroom to gain entry.
Nagel said the district has a $10,000 deductible on the building's insurance policy. It's still unknown how much repairs will cost.
Connecticut Mastery Tests are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but many of the booklets were lost, Nagel said. District administrators have been in contact with the state Department of Education to replace them.
The damage is isolated to the school's seventh and eighth-grade wings, which was re-dedicated in December 2011 following a $40.2 million renovation.
Superintendent Abby Dolliver said she's hopeful students can return to school on Tuesday using Kelly's auditorium, cafeteria, community room and gymnasium as possible temporary classrooms.
Nobody was in the building at the time of the incident, and officials have announced a 4 p.m. press conference to provide more information.
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The Christmas goose is weighing heavy in your belly. Time, perhaps, for a just-post-Christmas Christmas tale.
This is a secular Christmas story and requires some imagination on your part. Envision, if you will, the year is 2012 and Jesus, rather than of Nazareth is, instead, Jesus of El Jebel. Of course this is difficult in itself since the year 2012 is keyed off of the historic figure of Jesus and, were it not Jesus of Nazareth in the year 1 in the sleepy hollows of the Middle East, we wouldn't call it the year 2012 at all. Hmmm. Nonetheless ...
Jesus has been swept up at a dinner party, charged, and hustled off to meet his fate. After months of agitation, he has been expecting this.
Presume, instead of before the Council of High Priests in pre-modern Jerusalem, we are, the next morning, in the decidedly post-modern Araj Federal Courthouse in Denver. Instead of Caiaphas, Jesus is facing an unnamed federal district court judge. He is advised of the charges brought against him. He stands, stock still and peaceful - serene - absorbing the indictment.
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• Blasphemy. This one is a tough one to translate to modern times. Blasphemy, as you may know, is the disrespectful use of the name of one or more gods. Modernly, at least in a secular state such as ours, we do not have a clear equivalent. As the Roman pantheon of gods and the state were intimately intertwined, however, let's call this, instead, sedition. "Sedition" may be defined as covert conduct, such as speech and organization that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. In inciting rebellion against lawful authority, Jesus' conduct bordered on the act of treason.
• Unlawful assembly. While one's right of peaceable assembly is guaranteed under the First Amendment of the Constitution, the right is not absolute. Violent assembly, one where there is a "clear and present danger" or "imminent incitement of lawlessness" may be proscribed and its violation prosecuted.
• Conspiracy. Jesus is accused of colluding with his followers to achieve his unlawful designs. To "conspire" means to join in a secret agreement to engage in an unlawful act. In this case, Jesus actively encouraged others to join with him in his seditious designs to undermine the state.
• Criminal destruction of property, terrorism, assault and battery. All of these derive from driving the money changers from the temple and the threat to tear the temple down. It is a crime to injure the property of another, whether public or private. Under the circumstances present in this matter, the property destruction was undeniably intentional and may be said to have been malicious. "Terrorism" may occur when property damage is undertaken for the purpose of intimidating a government or society at large. A convenient example may be the Earth Liberation Front who employs the destruction of property to undermine society and further is its agenda. In chasing out the money changers, Jesus may have also committed assault and battery which may be defined as where one tries to, or does, physically strike another, or acts in a threatening manner to put another in fear of immediate harm.
• Criminal trespass. Generally, one commits the crime of "criminal trespass" when he enters or remains on another's property without the owner's consent. Consent may mean that the person knew he didn't have the owner's consent or if the owner or someone with the authority to act on behalf of the owner personally communicates this fact to him. One may start out with consent but if the consent is then withdrawn, and the person fails to leave, a trespass may result.
• Criminal mischief. Criminal mischief is another crime against property. It is the willful damaging of the property of another. Mark 11:15 bears witness. "When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves." There might be an animal cruelty charge here as well.
What then if found guilty of all charges would have become of Jesus? Just as before Caiaphas, then Pilate, the blasphemy/sedition allegation is the most serious. It would likely be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. §2384, into which new life was breathed following the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Punishment for seditious conspiracy is imprisonment for not more than 20 years. If, instead, treason were proved under 18 U.S.C. §2381, the punishment could, conceivably be more severe. If aid and comfort were given to an enemy - not consistent with the facts here - death could be the sentence. Otherwise, and more likely under our circumstances, the penalty would be imprisonment for not less than five years, a fine not less than $10,000; a life-long proscription from holding any office under the United States.
Crucifixion? Not under the harshest sentence which might be meted out. But then the story would not be so compelling and Christmas would be another thing entirely.
Happy holidays to all and for the blessings of peace in the new year.
Rohn K. Robbins is an attorney licensed before the bars of Colorado and California who practices in the Vail Valley with the law firm of Stevens, Littman, Biddision, Tharp and Weinberg LLC. His practice areas include business and commercial transactions, real estate and development, family law, custody, divorce and civil litigation. He may be heard on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on KZYR radio (97.7 FM) and seen on ECOTV 18 as host of "Community Focus." Robbins may be reached at 970-926-4461 or at either of his e-mail addresses, firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com


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The Minot Police Department is warning residents about some new community members that have gained attention around town: a herd of moose.
The police department says the city has become home to a cow and her two young calves. The department says they have been working with the North Dakota Department of Game and Fish on the matter and urge residents to "let the moose be."
Animal control officer Dick Schnell says the mother could become defensive if she feels her young are becoming threatened. He says the moose will eventually work their way out of town. If they don't and become a hazard to the public, authorities will then take action.
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Based on a study of more than 100,000 people, chicken consumption was associated with double the risk of bladder and pancreatic cancer. Breast cancer survival rates have been found to improve when saturated fat intake (found predominantly in cheese and chicken) is lowered. And poultry has been associated with an increased risk of lymphoma (see also here).
Other possible risks associated with chicken include: urinary tract infections, warts, staph, the MRSA superbug (see also here, here), and salmonella. Chicken has been found to contain in dioxins, toxic waste, excessive sodium, saturated fat, AGEs (which promote aging), and processed chicken is high in carcinogenic nitrosamines. Arachidonic acid, found in high levels in chicken and eggs, may adversely affect mood and mental health (see also here, here, here). Phthalates found in chicken, when eaten during pregnancy, can affect the fetus and may reduce the size of a male's developing genitals. And because we feed so much fish meal to chickens, you can have an allergic reaction to a parasitic fish worm by eating chicken fed contaminated fish.
Poultry tends to be so covered in fecal bacteria that one is advised against rinsing poultry because of concern of bacterial splatter. Using laser imaging, 92% of chicken carcasses were found to be contaminated with fecal matter, and more than 80% of chicken breasts sold in the US are fecally contaminated. Cooking fecal matter will kill the pathogens, but the danger of cross contamination in the kitchen before cooking still results in millions of cases of foodborne illness every year in the United States. A neuropathic strain of the fecal bacteria Campylobacter contaminates the US chicken supply; it can trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rapid and life-threatening paralysis.
Chicken has also become a high calorie and high fat food. One serving of chicken has over 200 calories today; 100 years ago a serving of chicken had only 16 calories. Cooking chicken until it is well done (to avoid the risk of food poisoning) creates carcinogens that increase the risk of cancer (see also here). And in a survey, TGI Friday's chicken salad was found to be the most carcinogenic among fast food restaurant chicken dishes.
Compared to the general population, poultry workers appear to have an excess of mouth, nasal, throat, tongue, tonsils, inner ear, liver, bone marrow, blood, rectal, anal, and penis cancer. Poultry workers have also been found to have higher rates of thyroid gland disorders, senility, schizophrenia, hypertension, heart disease, and autoimmune neurological disorders such as myasthenia gravis. This may be due to exposure to viruses present in chickens and turkeys. There is even a poultry virus that has been found to cause chickens to gain weight; one in five obese humans have tested positive for exposure to this virus. Other viruses can induce cancer in poultry in a matter of days; these viruses are found in raw poultry products, and the concern is that they also cause cancer in humans.
Placing children in the basket of the shopping cart with raw meat packages increases kids' risk of food poisoning. Listeria, a potentially life threatening bacteria that can be found in deli meat, is now being treated with bacteria-eating virus.
See also the related blog posts: Adding FDA-Approved Viruses to Meat, Poultry and Penis Cancer, EPA dioxin limit has National Chicken Council worried products could be declared "unfit for consumption", Talking Turkey: 9 out of 10 retail turkey samples contaminated with fecal bacteria, Foie gras ban in California: human health implications


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SAN PABLO -- Suffering from a suspected case of Lyme disease, 75-year-old San Pablo cancer survivor Renate Wunderlich seemed as concerned about her hospital's health as her own during a recent visit to the Doctors Medical Center emergency room.
"The joint pain is pretty bad," Wunderlich said, her voice trailing off before moving on to the new topic.
"This hospital isn't really going to close, is it?" she asked Dr. Laurel Hodgson, the lone emergency medicine doctor on duty this night, and other hospital staff. "It can't close."
Like everyone else, Dr. Hodgson doesn't have a straight answer to that question.
Despite two voter-approved parcel taxes in the past decade to keep it afloat, Doctors Medical remains on life support, the victim of a radically changed health care system that has largely stripped public hospitals of their most profitable patients. Doctors Medical could close this year if new funding doesn't materialize soon, and officials warn that the results would be catastrophic for West County -- including predicted emergency wait times of as long as 10 hours if the 41,000-plus annual visits to Doctors' emergency room are diverted elsewhere.
"It's really a matter of life or death," said Eric Zell, chairman of the West Contra Costa Healthcare District, which runs the hospital. "Doctors here at DMC see patients every day who would not otherwise survive."
The hospital, which projects a $16 million deficit this year, serves as the largest emergency room in West County and a destination for residents of all backgrounds when they suffer heart attacks and strokes, and time is often the difference between life and death, or severe, permanent injury.
DMC leaders say a partnership with a healthier institution is the only viable long-term answer to keeping the facility open, but crafting a deal will take time and depend upon immediate funding to stabilize the hospital's finances.
Hospital leaders and health industry experts also say the Affordable Care Act has exacerbated the short-term funding problems -- by driving down reimbursement rates for Medicare -- but that it could also fast-track the search for a lifesaving partnership. DMC has acknowledged that it is in talks with UC San Francisco Medical Center.
"Across California, there are a number of hospitals that are looking at their future, and particularly at risk are those that are independent, without affiliations with larger systems," said Jan Emerson-Shea, vice president of external affairs for the California Hospital Association. "Hospitals are facing $23 billion in government payment cuts through 2020, so independent safety net hospitals that don't have the large number of private payers face a huge challenge."
A spokesman for Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, a key architect of the Affordable Care Act, issued a statement Friday maintaining that the law will be a net benefit for the hospital.
"Congressman Miller is confident that the Affordable Care Act is benefiting San Pablo, North Richmond and the people that Doctors hospital serves, thanks to a number of provisions in the health law that increase low-income coverage and provide DMC and other provider networks with new partnership opportunities that were unattainable prior to the passage of the law," said Peter Whippy.
County Supervisor John Gioia, of Richmond, who also sits on the West Contra Costa Healthcare District's board, said the ACA's emphasis on integrating health care and increasing efficiency could help DMC land a partner.
In the short run, though, the major challenge that has long plagued the hospital won't change: Private hospitals have siphoned away patients with lucrative private insurance plans, leaving taxpayers to foot more of the bill for those who remain.
"It's a tough situation," said Dylan Roby of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. "In low-income districts, district hospitals play a dual role; they need to get private insurance patients and also need to provide for the indigent patients that get low reimbursement rates."
If DMC closes, the results would be "catastrophic" to the region, according to a 2011 report commissioned by Contra Costa Emergency Medical Services. The only other emergency room in West Contra Costa is Kaiser Richmond, which has only 15 emergency beds compared with 25 at DMC.
In a twist, the surrounding hospitals that drew away the best-paying customers would be inundated with the ones they left to DMC. Those same hospitals are key to whether DMC can survive in the short term.
"These other hospitals that would be inundated get a tax break for being nonprofit status," Gioia said. "They have stepped up with funds in the past, but the question is whether they will step up now."
Richmond leaders publicly implored Kaiser Permanente at a recent City Council meeting to provide additional funding to DMC; Kaiser said it would consider the request. DMC is also talking about putting another parcel tax measure on the November ballot to complement ones passed in 2004 and 2011 that pump $10.9 million annually into the hospital.
DMC handles 79 percent of the inpatient capacity, 62 percent of the ambulance traffic and 59 percent of the emergency room care in the region, according to the 2011 Contra Costa EMS report.
But just 12 percent of DMC's patients have private insurance, while about three-quarters are on Medicare or Medi-Cal. Eleven percent of patients are uninsured.
"We have a positive margin on those managed care patients; we just don't have many of them," said Dawn Gideon, DMC's interim CEO.


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Four local health departments in Michigan met in Lansing to discuss strategies to minimize the impact of the West Nile virus.
In the upcoming months, health departments will develop medical education programs for health care providers, form an internal regional workforce, and target programs for the elderly, the average person carrying the virus.
Health officials say the best way for the body to fight West Nile is to develop a natural immunity.
So far in Michigan, West Nile has claimed the lives of 15 people and more than 290 people are infected with the virus.
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Annamarie Crescini had just finished lunch three blocks from her Hayward home last July when someone ripped a beloved possession from her neck -- a gold chain with a jade pendant she had treasured for 20 years.
"He asked me if I could spare 50 cents to help him buy groceries," Crescini said. "I told him I didn't have that, but I had a dollar, and he snatched the necklace as I was holding it out. And he still took the dollar."
Though she didn't know it at the time, Crescini, a 49-year-old woman of Filipino descent, was one of the latest targets of a prolific gang of thieves who admit to "hunting" residents of Indian, Filipino and Latino descent for their high-quality necklaces.
And police data confirms that women of Indian, Filipino and Latino descent are being robbed of gold chain necklaces at a higher rate than other ethnicities, Hayward police detective Michael O'Connell said.
Five of seven suspected members of the "chain-snatching bandits," as one suspect called the gang in his confession, have been arrested to date, all men between the ages of 18 and 20 from Oakland, Hayward, Union City, Fremont and Richmond. The group maintains ties to an Oakland gang, and are connected to other gold-chain robberies in Fremont and possibly Union City.
Though they have been charged with only four robberies thus far, the gang is believed to be involved in at least 18 other robberies that remain under investigation, Hayward police detective Michael O'Connell said. The numbers show them to be responsible for the bulk of the city's gold thefts, which accounted for 15 percent of the city's total robberies between May 16 and Dec. 7.
Police data also suggests that the suspects aren't deterred by daylight, Hayward Sgt. Eric Krimm said. Of the 28 gold thefts reported between May 16 and Dec. 7, none occurred before 8 a.m. or after 7 p.m. The pattern suggests the thieves, along with knowing when their most vulnerable victims are likely to be on the streets, prefer to act when they can get rid of an item quickly--during cash-for-gold business hours, police said.
Turning a stolen item into cash quickly
The thieves will often grab the chain and make a beeline for the nearest cash-for-gold store in one fell swoop, cashing in on the precious metal within a few minutes' time, Hayward Lt. Roger Keener said.
"They steal it on one corner, and two corners away they're getting rid of it for cash," Keener said. "It's tantamount to going to an ATM, only it's not their money."
Police say the impetus for stealing gold jewelry is enabled by the business end of the transaction, as retailers, some without a license to sell, can pay pennies on the dollar for high-quality gold as the cost per ounce continues to skyrocket. One suspect admitted to receiving only $500 for a chain that police later found to be valued at $3,000.
"It's not that these businesses are catering only to robbery suspects, but because it's so lucrative right now, it does make it easier for thieves to get the gold through robbery and get rid of it quickly," Keener said.
State regulations require retailers to photograph the item, obtain proper ID and keep the item for 30 days before turning it for sale.
"If we can bring them into compliance or stop them from operating illegally then we've reduced the opportunity," Keener said. "If these places aren't so prolific, it's a supply and demand thing."
A three-pronged approach
Keener describes the police response to the gold-snatching epidemic as a three-pronged approach: ensuring compliance with secondhand dealer requirements; identifying groups who are doing the robberies; and educating residents to avoid victimization.
"I would love people to stop displaying their chains so we can protect them--for the most part, it's a crime of opportunity," O'Connell said. "If something like this happens, be a good witness and try to see as much as you can and be distinct. What they said, how they looked, where they went, and vehicles associated."
When she was robbed, Crescini watched helplessly as her attacker stumbled backward, ran across the street and almost got hit by a car. The suspect, identified as Joseph Kelly, 20, of Richmond, was arrested by Hayward police, but the necklace was never recovered.
Crescini, a medical records technician who requires a cane to walk, was thankful for her safety but came away with a newfound fear of walking alone. She urges residents to be aware of their surroundings.
"Personal safety: Treasure it, please." Crescini said. "He didn't just take my necklace. He took my sense of personal safety as well. I hope it was worth it."


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Definition of point source in English:
point source
1 Physics A source of energy, such as light or sound, which can be regarded as having negligible dimensions.
Example sentences
- That is why we often speak of the planetary 'disk' in astronomy: even under slight magnification the human eye interprets a planet as a 2 dimensional source of light and not a point source.
- Whenever an advancing wavefront of light encounters a barrier in which there is a hole, this hole acts as if it were a point source of light, with radiation of the same wavelength moving beyond the barrier away from the hole.
- Illuminance is the measurement of how bright a point source of light appears to the eye.
2A localized and stationary source of pollution. Compare with non-point source.
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- However, in a British study in which the authors compared a population living around a point source of air pollution with a control population, no increase in the prevalence of low birth-weight was evident in the polluted area.
- If the pesticide - toxic by definition - got into the stream, didn't the spray nozzle on the helicopter count as a point source of pollution, just like a factory pipe?
- The simulation showed that under still and convective conditions the vapours emitted by a point source rapidly form stationary envelopes around the leaves.
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New Jersey to Develop a 345-Megawatt Offshore Wind Power Project
October 15, 2008
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) announced on October 3 that it has selected Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE)—a joint venture of PSEG Renewable Generation and Deepwater Wind—to develop a 345.6-megawatt wind project off the coast of New Jersey. The BPU awarded a $4 million grant to GSOE, of which $400,000 will be paid upfront to conduct studies and to prepare the permit applications for the $1 billion facility. It will consist of 96 wind turbines located 16-20 miles off the shore of Atlantic City and will barely be visible from the shore. According to the BPU, construction could begin in 2010 at the earliest, while PSEG hopes to start generating power in 2012, achieving full commercial operation in 2013. See the press releases from the New Jersey BPU (PDF 25 KB) and GSOE (PDF 200 KB) and the GSOE Web site. Download Adobe Reader.
A report prepared for the BPU in September by Global Insight examined the potential costs and benefits of a wind facility located off the shore of New Jersey and concluded that the facility would provide more than 1% of the state's electricity needs. A facility located far from shore, as the GSOE project will be, is expected to have minimal impacts on tourism, property values, and fisheries, with the greatest fisheries impacts occurring during construction. The study also found that an offshore wind facility could improve the state's image. Encouraged by the new project and the study, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine announced his plan to triple the state's goal for offshore wind power, aiming for 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind power by 2020. See the Global Insight study (PDF 1.1 MB) and the governor's press release.


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Lakers in the Playoffs? Don't Laugh
The good news for the collection of mega-talents wearing Los Angeles Lakers uniforms this season is that they're playing like a team much better than their current record. The bad news is they're running out of time to bring their record into line with their quality of play.
L.A., despite its 19-25 record, is outscoring opponents by 1.39 points per game. It's also played the second-toughest schedule in the NBA, a reflection of the West's superiority — Western teams have won more than 58% of games against the East — and an unbalanced schedule that has, for example, required the Lakers to already play seven of their 11 games against the NBA's three best teams: Oklahoma City, San Antonio and the L.A. Clippers. The Lakers' margin of victory plus their schedule strength makes them the ninth-best team in the NBA by Simple Rating System, a measure that combines the two factors into a rating for the Lakers of 2.2 points per game better than average this season. That's better than all but two East teams — Miami and New York — and the seventh-best mark in the West.
Teams as good as L.A. typically have much better records than the Lakers do. Since 1946-47, 67 teams have had an SRS of between 1.9 and 2.5 over a full season. All of them had a better winning percentage than the Lakers do. The average team of the group won 58.5% of its games, with 48-34 the most common record. That record likely would be good enough for one of the West's eight playoff berths. Houston, the team that's currently eighth in the West, has won just 53.2% of its games.
Unfortunately for L.A., it hasn't done well at translating its points margin into wins. The Lakers are just 6-19 in games decided by 10 points or fewer, getting their sixth win in a close game at home against Oklahoma City on Sunday, 105-96. And L.A. can't take back those 19 losses or any other games it's already played. Those 44 games L.A. has played are staying on its record.
So if L.A., from here on in, keeps playing at the same level, and does better in close games, that should mean the Lakers will win about 58.5% of their games. That's disregarding their schedule, which will get slightly easier in terms of opponent strength but will take them away from L.A. for 21 of their remaining 38 games. If L.A. does win 58.5% of its remaining games, that would leave the Lakers with just 41 wins. Houston is on pace for 44 wins. So 41 wins likely won't be enough to get the Lakers into the playoffs. To get to 44 wins, they'd have to win 66% of their remaining games. Just four teams of 67 teams with an SRS similar to the Lakers' won at that rate over a whole season. The most recent one, the Hornets in 1996-97, went 38-17 in games decided by 10 points or less. The Lakers may need to be that successful in close games from here on out to reach the postseason.


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Keep the hoops near your heart when you're wearing this official Celtic Third Jersey from Nike!
A design features 1888-2013 (the year Celtic was founded), a special 125th anniversary Celtic team badge and a championship star surrounding the embroidered team badge.
Nike logo is embroidered in white on the right chest and sponsor design is screened below the Cetic badge.
New fabric and design lets the jersey move and manage moisture effectively and efficiently. Weave lets air constantly flow through the jersey. Open collar.
Nike logo at front along with a screened sponsor design. Celtic is screened at the back collar.
100% recycled polyester.
Apoya al Celtic con su nueva camiseta oficial del tercer uniforme hecha por Nike. Para celebrar el 125 aniversario del Celtic, viene con la fecha 1888-2013 y estrella de campeón alrededor del escudo bordado del club. El logotipo de Nike viene bordado en bl


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Switzerland, 2013, 91 Minute Running Time
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At age 55, Andre lives with his mother, Louise, an octogenarian who was once a would-be Hollywood diva. Their lives revolve around Louise's routine; repressed Andre feels his mother gave up her future for him. Propelled by guilt, he leads a rather ho-hum life, spending his spare time flying model airplanes, while his mother relives her bygone days.
Louise dictates every detail, from canapés at card nights to slippers by the door, overshadowing any hope of a normal life for Andre. He longs to date Steffi, who hawks sausages at the airfield, but can't seem to cut the apron strings. When an American named Bill arrives at their doorstep, Louise and Andre's lives are turned upside down. Charismatic Bill claims to be Louise's long-lost son, born while she was in Hollywood. Raised by his producer father and a series of nannies, Bill is looking for the family he never had … or is he? Andre doesn't believe Bill is who he seems, and finds himself jealous of his mother's unquestioning adoration of this newly arrived usurper. Meanwhile, Andre's attempts to woo Steffi flop—his dedication to his mother stands in his way.
Bettina Oberli directs this gentle film, which meanders through moments of humor but also touches on some of humankind's most profound thoughts: How do we define family? What do we owe them? Are any of us who we say we are, or does what we tell people make it so? Andre finally discovers the answers to these questions, and more, when he lets go and pursues his own happiness.
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text: NBC paid "Perverted Justice," the outfit that impersonates children and rounds up would-be perverts for "To Catch A Predator," $802,520 last year. The non-profit's CEO, Xavier Von Erck, who expects to make $2 million in consulting fees in 2008, responded to questions from Radar about the group: "Thanks for contacting us for comment, John. Unfortunately, you're not a legitimate reporter, you're just a rather scummy fellow who writes for a tabloid rag. Other than being told that you're a scummy hack who resembles a stalker more than a journalist, we don't have any comment for you...." [Radar]


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Hi all,
First, please excuse my ignorance if I'm going to be asking stupid questions, as I'm diving right in without too much investigation, only because it's so exciting to be able to transcode stuff and stream it to my PS3.
Anyway, I'm trying to get the 1.20 beta of PMS to work on my dual processor G5 PPC Mac running 10.5.x.
As far as I am able to tell so far, the main obstacle is that PMS is dependent on JRE 1.6, but since Sun and Apple stopped supporting the Java on the PPC as of version 1.6, PMS won't work.
So, I got the bright idea of installing Open JDK on my PPC. However, trying to run PMS fails because Open JDK supports X11 and not GTK, so I get
javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException: [GTK look and feel - com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel] not supported on this platform
So, my question is, what is the easiest way to change the look and feel library dependency to Motif, to get past this hump?


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firstly thanks for a great program...
I have noticed that if you have a folder with a '.' in it's name, it will not show any characters after the '.' on the PS3 -
I have the folder 'Mrs. Doubtfire', which only shows up as 'Mrs'
I got rid of the '.' and it appears as Mrs Doubtfire
I tried this with a few other video folders and I got the same results.
but it does seem to read the data that's not shown and keep the folders in order


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The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team heads north to face off with Big Ten foe Minnesota in its final contest of 2013 on Saturday, Dec. 28. It will be the final game before conference play opens on Thursday, Jan. 2. The game will be televised nationally on the Big Ten Network.
• After missing the CMU game due to injury, John Jordan has averaged 18.3 points, 5.4 assists and 5.8 rebounds in the last four games.
• Having missed the first nine games with an injury, Rashawn Thomas made his debut in a big way, posting a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds at Oklahoma. He added 10 points last time out against Cal State Northridge.
• Freshman forward Jeff Beverly matched his career best with 20 points against UTPB. The big man has scored in double figures seven times and is averaging 11.1 points per game.
• Five of the Islanders' nine losses have been by five points or fewer, including three by two points or fewer.
• The Islanders took part in a 10-day, four-game tour of Italy in August, a trip that allowed them 10 extra days of practice prior to the tour.
• Though Coach Wilson has his most experienced team with the Islanders, only five players have more than one year of Division I playing experience (Ali, Knowles, Jordan, Douvier, King).
Saturday's contest will be the first between the Islanders and Minnesota, though Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is 0-7 against the Big Ten all-time (most notably in the team's 2007 NCAA Tournament appearance - a 76-63 loss to Wisconsin.)
John Jordan's jumper at the buzzer rimmed out, as the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team lost a back-and-forth affair to Cal State Northridge, 67-66. Jordan had 18 points, eight rebounds and five assists in the loss. The Matadors placed four players in double figures, led by Josh Greene and Stephan Hicks, who each scored 18. Rashawn Thomas also finished in double figures for the Islanders.
John Jordan is only a junior for the Islanders basketball team, but he's the most experienced player on the roster and one of the favorites for Southland Conference Player of the Year. The Houston native was named Preseason First Team All-Southland Conference by the league's coaches.
He showed his worthiness for that selection in the opening game of the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Islanders Basketball Tournament. Jordan went off for a career-high 28 points, going 10-for-16 from the field. His final basket gave the Islanders a one-point lead with 4.2 seconds remaining en route to a 72-71 win. He added 18 points and nine boards against Tennessee Tech.
He suffered an ankle injury earlier this year that forced him to miss the Central Michigan game. But he has returned with gusto, and is averaging 18.3 points, 5.4 assists and 5.2 rebounds over the last four contests. He has had 10+ points, 5+ boards and 5+ dimes in each of those contests. Included in the stretch is a 25-point outing against UTPB.
It's hard not to be impressed when looking at the numbers that the 5-foot-10 Jordan put up last season. Jordan was second in the league in assists (5.5 per game) and 12th in the league with 12.8 points per game. His 5.5 assists per game were 39th in Division I.
Jordan broke the school record with 138 assists as a freshman, then bested his own mark with 159 as a sophomore. With 349 career assists, he is over halfway to the school record of 493, held by Brian Evans.
Freshman Rashawn Thomas was one of the most electrifying players for the Islanders over the summer. During the team's trip to Italy, he had a double-double in each of the team's four games and was expected to make an immediate impact from the season opener on.
But the fates turned another direction for Thomas. The Oklahoma City native fractured his jaw on Nov. 7, the day before the Islanders' first game of the year against Huston-Tillotson. He missed the first nine games of the season.
On Dec. 3, Thomas was cleared by the doctor to return to the court, and the freshman had just one practice to get back up to speed before heading to Oklahoma to play in front of his friends and family from nearby Oklahoma City.
Any doubts about the 6-foot-7 forward being tentative were instantly alleviated. Thomas missed his first two shots, but converted his first career points at the 8:25 mark. By the time the dust had settled in the game, the freshman had 12 points, 10 rebounds, three blocks and two steals. He became the first Islander freshman with a double-double in his debut since Corey Lamkin had 16 points and 15 rebounds against Sul Ross State on Nov. 16, 2001.
Thomas was a McDonald's All-America nominee and was named City Player of the Year his senior year at Southeast HS.
Thomas' classmate, fellow freshman Jeff Beverly, joined the Islanders as a highly-touted prospect out of the Houston area known for his scoring ability. Though he had a slow start to his career with a pedestrian seven points and four rebounds against Huston-Tillotson, he made his presence known in the game against Iowa State.
Beverly went 5-for-11 from the field with eight rebounds – four offensive - one block, one steal and one assist, all with just one turnover in a career-high 31 minutes. But what was more of a shock to the Cyclones was likely Beverly's range. The 6-foot-6, 245 pounder stepped back and drilled 3-of-5 shots from beyond the arc.
He showed more of the same for his home fans at the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Tournament. He set a new career high before halftime against Tennessee Tech, going 5-for-6 with 15 points in the opening stanza, finishing with 18.
He has had issues with foul trouble, but exploded for a career-high 20 in his return to his hometown of Houston on Nov. 30. He went 7-for-12 from the field and posted his fourth game this season that he was perfect from the stripe.
He struggled in the contest at Oklahoma, as foul trouble kept him to 22 minutes, but came back with 20 points against Texas-Permian Basin, matching his career high. The blemish, though, came at the free-throw line, where the normally reliable Beverly went just 4-for-8. He did hit both his three-point attempts, and is now 8-for-18 from beyond the arc on the season. He is averaging 11.1 points on the year.
Beverly averaged 22.3 points and 11 boards at Clear Springs High School, and was named first team all-state.
During the Islanders' seven-game losing streak, the team has been reasonably consistent on offense. The team is averaging 66.7 points – exactly the same as the season average. The team has actually been more efficient from the field as of late, converting at a .442 clip from the floor, up from .434.
The major difference is on the defensive end, though. Over the first five games, opponents were averaging 63.8 points with 14.6 of those coming at the foul line. In the last seven, the opposition is averaging 74.7 points with 20.9 of those coming at the foul line. Likewise, the opposition is shooting .479 from the field in the last five, as opposed to .403 in the first five contests.
Redshirt sophomore Jake Kocher was recently named a nominee for the 2014 Allstate National Association of Basketball Coaches Good Works Team. The award recognizes a select group of college basketball student-athletes who have made significant contributions to the greater good of their communities through volunteerism and civic service. A total of 118 players were nominated for the award, including 75 student-athletes from NCAA Division I.
Kocher has been extremely active in the community, both in Corpus Christi and his hometown of Austin. He has worked mainly with youngsters, volunteering with such organizations as the Boys & Girls Club, Boy Scouts, Ronald McDonald House and the Miracle League, and has spoken at several elementary and middle schools, serving as a role model for the youth of Corpus Christi.


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"Listening Below the Noise offers readers the possibility of finding grace and peace in the natural world and in ourselves. Elegant and honest… one of those rare books that finds its way into our hearts, and stays there." — Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle
A meditation on silence, the art of being present, and simple spirituality from critically acclaimed novelist Anne D. LeClaire (Entering Normal, The Lavender Hour), Listening Below the Noise offers a practical path to achieving calm, peaceful solitude in hectic lives. Practitioners of yoga and meditation of various traditions have long known the curative powers of stillness; in Listening Below the Noise, LeClaire offers her own unique, compelling version of this ancient wisdom tradition.
When Anne D. LeClaire decided to turn an ordinary Monday into a day of silence, she viewed her experiment as a one-time occurrence. Little did she realize she had begun an inner voyage that would transform her life.
In the seventeen years since, LeClaire has practiced total silence on the first and third Monday of each month. By detaching herself from the bustle of her hectic lifestyle and learning to listen to her deepest self, she has found a center from which to live—one that tests, strengthens, and heals her. In practicing silence, she has discovered her own secret garden—a cloistered, sacred, private place where true personal growth is possible.
In this eloquent book—part memoir, part philosophical inquiry—LeClaire reflects on how silence can help us attend to the world around us, expand our awareness, and achieve inner peace. Silence, LeClaire contends, reminds us to pay attention to the ordinary moments of our existence. In silence we can learn how to listen, become more compassionate, ignite and nurture creativity, uncover our inner yearnings, and ultimately find peace and improve our well-being. By confronting ourselves and learning from the anxiety that arises when we are freed from distraction, we can become whole. With clarity and humor, LeClaire reveals how silence has brought joy to her life and helped her foster new connections with nature, with others, and with herself.
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WASHINGTON (November 30, 2012)--The National Archives Friday made public for the first time more than 850 pages of once-secret documents from the Watergate political scandal, including privileged legal conversations and prison evaluations of some Watergate burglars.
A federal judge unsealed the material earlier this month at the request of a Texas college history professor.
Luke Nichter of Texas A&M University-Central Texas in Killeen, wrote the judge in 2009 to ask that the documents be unsealed.
Nichter specializes in 20th century U.S. political history and created a website that makes the most complete collection of digitized Nixon tapes available to researchers.
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A few years ago, when you wanted to use a GNU/Linux distribution for your desktop computer, you still needed to concede a part of your freedom to open some PDF files, run most Java programs, or all Flash animations.
Not anymore.
Several steps closer to a fully free system
Right now, the most used version of Java (and therefore, the most targeted by free implementations) is 1.4.2, even though 1.5 has been out for two years now.
With gcc 4, a JVM was added to the existing Java support. Strong with existing free implementations (such as kaffe), this support rapidly reached 75% of compatibility between gcj and Sun's JVM.
Right now it stands at 99.75%.
Thanks to what? Maybe the strong reliance of Openoffice.org 2 upon Java... As a result, a very compatible JVM is now available.
Flash support has always been sporadic under GNU/Linux systems. While it's gotten better with the release of Flash 7 and Flash 9 being developed concurrently for win32, MacOS and GNU/Linux...
Gnash is, right now, the only way for someone using a 64-bit browser to enjoy Flash animations.
And it actually works quite well - its use of OpenGL can even make it a bit more fluid under X.
Adobe and Apple created a very nice format: PostScript, and encapsulated it nicely: Portable Document Format. They went as far as opening the specs on the file format, and provided a readily downloadable viewer for a large variety of platforms.
Ghostscript can now render pretty much every PDF 1.4 file out there.
A full desktop?
I've been complaining about the lack of free 3D support under X; it was time I said something nice about what most people working with computers use everyday...
Really necessary?
(It's probably a bad idea to submit my first comment just in between some competitions but I have to react...)
I wonder: is this really necessary? Is a free desktop really that useful? Why should one be worried about free programs? I see some reasons:
- Economical ones: you are depending on one vendor, as in the Windows era. True, of course, but IMHO Flash, Java and PDF are open standards so you can change at any time. If users have a program that works better they don't care wether it's free or not.
- Ethical reasons: free software on free software systems (Linux, *BSD, ...). For companies this does not matter, they have to be legally okay anyway. For individuals this might be more important, but why? The regular user does not care. If you're really fanatic (perhaps this is a little bit exaggerated) you can live with the free alternatives I guess or you will avoid Flash for example.
- Legal reasons: most of the times those programs are licensed just enough for you to use them. Installing them in an easy way is of course difficult, but I reckon this stems from the fact that there are very few linux users.
These are just my 2 cents, most probably there are some gaps in the reasoning here. But that's what happens when you feel like reacting at 9am...
Yes, it is.
When I bought my new shining AMD64 machine, it was only able to run good in Linux. But I couldn't run many of the codecs and other closed software on it to listen/see many of my files i got from friends. In Linux/i386 you can, but not in any other architecture, like Linux/IBM360.
The same problem when I wanted to make my new Linksys NSLU2 into a media station. The codecs for many formats was in i386 code. And that was a problem, becouse it doesn't run i386 code, it's an ARM architecture. It's capable to do lots of fun stuff, like distributing different media and such. But emulating a i386 with speed to convert media formats is not one of those.
So, yes, it has more use to be able to run Linux desktop, not just for desktops...
Just my €0.02
Only when you need it
Actually, if you don't ever "need� the software, it doesn't matter if it's free.
The problem with non-free software is that it can essentially be taken away from you at any time. This might not be technically true, but it can be rendered useless, can't be used on later platforms, and/or can't be distributed (depends on which non-free terms are in question).
This is basically what we call the "future proofing� argument: software freedom removes the doubts associated with obsolescence, planned or otherwise.
So if it's just a toy, and you don't care if it goes away, then, no, it doesn't matter. Big companies, accustomed to a constant maintenance cash burn rate, and for whom all upgrades come down to cash, whether it's spent on outside licenses or inside training, may not care about the difference. For individuals and smaller businesses, where it is cash-flow, and not profit-or-loss that makes and breaks them, however, the difference is critical.
Being able to get what you need by working a little harder instead of blowing capital, is a very valuable option to have.
So, how critical are these technologies? If a flash viewer is only needed to watch cartoons on the web, then maybe it doesn't matter to you. But if you're an entertainment company maintaining a 20 year archive of cartoons, then you're being an idiot if you pick a proprietary storage format without a free viewer, because you're going to be paying through the nose for that choice for about 17-19 of those years.
In my experience, however, applications tend to drift towards greater and greater criticality, so just about any common technology that only exists in proprietary form is a threat to my future freedom.
Free formats...
As for my opionion:
Java - I don't use it so I don't even have JRE installed. I have no apps in Java, also I'm pretty happy that my browser will not load ~20MB plugin runtime to run something like... like what exactly? I don't know (and use) any website/service that relies on Java right now. Java is obsolete for me.
Flash - this is a big one for me. I just need it. I couldn't go without it. There are loads of things in Flash that I just need to see. Youtube for example. :) Too bad Flash on Linux is now pretty awkard (old plugin version using old ABI).
PDFs - I use Acrobat Reader. Ghostscript is nice but all it can do is just render a file and maybe add few links to it. It is more to PDFs than that (like JavaScript in them, forms and stuff). PDF is a really nice and *open* format. You shouldn't be bashing Adobe for releasing their Reader software in recent version for Linux. You *should* be instead asking FOSS community where is the support for all features that PDFs offer in Free Software readers. It just not here, and this is in fact some cool and usefull stuff.
As for other things? How about media codecs (MP3, Windows Media, Quick Time, Real etc.) - these are big issues.
PS. Och and OOo 2.x is not based on Java, some features do. But do you use them anyway? You can in most cases use OOo without Java and it will be much snappier.
Not bashing...
Java: you don't use it, and you can live without it, good for you; personally, I have a few Java-based apps I sometimes need, and since Java apps can run without being recompiled under many environments (from win32 to GNU/Linux/AMD64), I'd rather have them rather than having to wait for a native port.
Flash: well, the Gnash plugin has started implementing the newer ABI and newer plugin specs in firefox and Konqueror... No YouTube support yet, but they're working on it. What will be very nice about it will be its ability to make use of hardware acceleration for antialiasing - a big CPU consumer since it's done in software in the Adobe plugin.
PDFs: Ghostscript can do forms as far as I know, now. Moreover, I had a problem with Reader: it would silently crash on my system upon printing, without giving an error message. I had to reformat my system, nothing else would make it work again. It started failing overnight - so I now stick to Ghostscript. Note: GhostScript is first and foremost a Postscript (layout language) interpreter; Javascript (script/interaction language) support is actually independant from it, and would in fact have to be embedded in the viewer, not in Ghostscript itself; so later version of, say, gv, or Kghostview, are to blame there (and I think at least some of them integrate JS support; Kghostview would be a safe bet, since it can call upon KHTML's JS support). I was talking about error correction, font replacement and printer compatibility in my post over anything else.
OOo 2.0 makes use of Java for its database frontend and used it to display full-screen presentations (I think it doesn't require Java for that any more). For version 2.0.0, lack of the Sun JVM meant quite a lot of crippling (no fullscreen, no spellcheck, no merged documents); it got much better in 2.0.2 (added gcj support and reduced reliance upon Java) and 2.0.3 (more of the same).
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Free software - Free speech
I personally don't need the constitutional protection of a free press or free speech. I don't publish, I don't give public speeches - so why should I need free speech?
I like to give this as an answer to people who say that they don't need open source / free software, because they are not programmers and would never dream of looking at the source code or modifying it. They say that they are simply users of off-the-shelf products.
I am both a consumer/user of publications (newpapers, TV, radio) as well as software. I believe it is very important for a democratic society that those people who need the protection of free press/speech (journalists, publishers, etc.) have it, even if I personally don't need it. In the same way I think it is important that a system of free/open source software exists for those who need/want it, even if I personally don't need it.
My personal needs (and even those of the majority) don't necessarily determine what is good for society. Only a small fraction of the population personally needs protected free speech or free/open source software. However, the general existence of such freedoms is a pillar of a free and democratic society.
False analogy, really
I do hear where you're coming from and it's a popular refrain, but it's really a bit of a false analogy. Printing presses cost money, so the fact that publishing software costs money -- even per copy -- isn't really a restriction to freedom in that sense: you are still free to pay a license to use the software, just as you are free to purchase a printing press. I know the FSF has waged a long war against this interpretation, but it doesn't make it false: the primary effect of free licenses is to make per-copy license fees untenable.
Nowhere does it say that you have to be given a printing press for free.
Likewise, it doesn't immediately follow that access to development of software must be available for free.
And if you don't think that's the point ("Free as in speech, not as in beer!") then ask yourself this: if a company gave you full access to the source code for every package, and the right to redistribute the results of your work as long as 1) you paid them a per-copy fee for each copy of the source code, and 2) you paid them a royalty on each copy of your modified version of the software, and 3) you had to use a compiler which also cost money per-copy -- would you still call that "free software"? You'd have all of your "four freedoms" -- except that you'd have to pay for them all.
That's another reason why I think the "free as in speech, not as in beer" slogan is disingenuous: "free as in speech" may be the ideal, but without the "free as in beer" part, it's still a non-starter.
On the other hand, it's easy to see the benefit of having a free tool for publication, as it enables much more speech for a broader community of speakers and furthers the ideal of free speech.
That's why I prefer to speak of free software in terms of "ideals" rather than some rigid system of "rules". The freedom promoted is a social ideal, not a fundamental right -- zealous propaganda aside. Still, I'm willing to work pretty hard for such a social ideal.
But I think people who claim to be "fighting" for the "right" of free software are really just grandstanding. There is no such fundamental right, any more than there is a fundamental right to copyright protection itself. They're just social choices that promote one or more ideals of society. Which ones do you like better? Which serve the public good better?
They both provide incentives and penalties for consumers and producers both.
Which one is a better bargain for society? Fortunately, the miracle of the copyleft free licensing scheme is that it prevents you from having to choose once and for all for all society: free licenses create protected zones within an existing copyright regime where free-licensed open source software innovation can happen.
This is on a completely different level from the freedom of speech, which is fundamental. Indeed, the freedom of speech includes the right to write and publish software, whether through the per-copy fee-based system of traditional copyright or through the freely shared systems of copyleft or non-copyleft distribution.
On the other point, if this was in any way directed at my earlier post, I should probably have said "it is needed" rather than "you need it" -- the emphasis was on the fact that the importance of the freedom of the software is correlated to how much it's needed. If it's just a toy that has no real extensive value, then it doesn't really matter.
But how many software packages are promoted as "just a toy", and how many stay that way, even if they start out there? Software freedom is an important value in just about any package. And that's adequate reason to go 100% free in my opinion, even when that's not always easy (and sometimes costs more money in hardware).
It's also part of the reason why we need copyright term limits and the public domain: it's one thing for fluffy television entertainment to be restricted by per-copy fees, but it's a whole different matter for the classic works of literature that form the fabric of our society to be so limited. The recent (that is, over the last 30 years) extensions to copyright have unnecessarily retarded our society by locking up culture in a way that makes the real and natural evolution of that culture difficult, and locks out all but an oligarchy of "producers" from the right to extend and develop our culture.
So ideals are important, but they shouldn't be confused with natural rights.