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I could use a lot of adjectives to describe the tragedy that is ex-cop Christopher Dorner's vigilante killings and the prolonged manhunt that followed in Los Angeles., but transparency wouldn't be one of them. We still do not know many of the details.
The 33-year-old former LAPD cop turned alleged killer is now himself reportedly dead, burnt in a San Bernardino cabin Tuesday after police cornered him in the mountains. Dorner took a posse of law enforcement on a weeklong cat-and-mouse chase, after allegedly killing the daughter of a police officer, her fiancé, an LAPD officer and a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy. He also allegedly shot three others cops who survived. The shootings were reportedly revenge for being fired in 2009.
A massive manhunt ensued, which stretched all the way to the Mexican-California border as a $1 million bounty was placed on his head. More than 50 police officers and their families were put under 24-hour protection, fearing their former colleague was out to murder them.
Recent reports say a charred body, which is most likely Dorner, was found in the burned-out cabin, but no official identification has been made. An LAPD spokeswoman said Tuesday night that DNA tests could take days or even weeks. One other officer was reportedly killed in the shootout and another injured. Meanwhile, the above video shows the wooded area where Dorner had fled, after forcing a motorist to give up his car. He had also kidnapped two maids earlier and one had escaped to alert authorities.
Police officers are heard screaming angrily, and some of the conversation seems to include someone yelling "burn that f**king house down," with another responding, "I don't know." The yelling man then reiterated his command of "burn it!" I could be hearing wrong, but did police deliberately burn the cabin down, killing two birds with one stone, as the saying goes? The announcer tried to cover her discomfort by saying the cops are understandably upset, but if they torched Dorner deliberately, aren't they being vigilantes like he was?
Before his alleged shooting spree, Dorner had posted a manifesto on Facebook, which was later published by the Los Angeles Times. He targeted several officers for what he said was his unfair termination and also outlined rampant racism and abuse within the department. He claimed that his firing was punishment for reporting the abuse of a fellow officer, whom he said repeatedly stomped on a suspect's face and chest. He also added that the LAPD was worse now than before Rodney King and that one of the officers who had taken part in that brutal beating of King had been promoted to sergeant.
Vigilantism never is a good idea, especially killing innocent family members of those who might have wronged him, but was this a tragedy waiting to happen? LAPD Chief Charlie Beck called Dorner "a trained assassin" and the killings "an act of terror" but at the same time was planning to review his termination. "I feel we need to publicly address Dorner's allegations regarding his termination," Beck said in a statement released Saturday, "...I do this not to appease a murderer. I do it to reassure the public that their police department is transparent and fair in all things we do."
With all the allegations of rampant corruption and racism in the LAPD, this will look like them silencing someone they didn't want to take to a trial where he might talk. What Dorner did was the wrong way to go; becoming a killer did not solve the problems to which he alluded. Like Democracynow.org wrote, he could have blown the lid off that department in explosive fashion if what he said is true. He could have become a whistle-blower, but then again power has a way of clamping down what it doesn't want known.
Interestingly, even if Dorner is said to have murdered four and injured three, he has many supporters, who have taken to social media like Twitter and Facebook to air their views. America seems to be seething with dangerous undercurrents of discontent, growing feelings of injustice and bias -- the stuff of which revolutions and anarchy are made.
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LOCKPORT – At Tuesday's meeting, the Niagara County Legislature continued its partisan brawling over the retirement health benefits of outgoing Deputy Election Commissioner Nancy L. Smith.
Smith, who was election commissioner until last month, was replaced by her longtime deputy, Lora A. Allen, who in turn named Smith as her deputy.
Smith is expected to stay only until her 55th birthday April 15, when she will become eligible to have the county pay 75 percent of her health insurance premiums for the rest of her life.
Smith has a total of 19 years in county service, and according to a 1998 Legislature resolution, appointed officials with 15 to 19 years of service are entitled to the 75 percent insurance payment in retirement. Those with 20 years or more are entitled to a 100 percent county payment of their health premiums.
"But for Lora Allen's action … [Smith] would not be entitled to her health benefits," County Attorney Claude A. Joerg said as Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls, shouted interruptions.
Virtuoso said Joerg is wrong. He said the resolution gives Smith her benefits merely because of her service time.
"You guys are wrong. You're calling me a liar?" Virtuoso shouted. "[Smith] didn't have to be reappointed. She could get her benefits that day."
"If they really believe in that interpretation, why would they keep Nancy Smith on until she's 55?" demanded Legislator Paul B. Wojtaszek, R-North Tonawanda.
If the Democrats think they're right, Majority Leader Richard E. Updegrove, R-Lockport, said, "She could retire the day before she turns 55 instead of the day after."
"She decided when she wanted to retire," Allen said. "I am confident the right decision was made."
The Legislature lacks the authority to dismiss Smith, whose appointment is at Allen's pleasure, but the GOP majority did pass a resolution opposing her continued employment.
Democratic Chairman Nicholas J. Forster called Tuesday's motion "one of the most ridiculous resolutions I've ever seen in my life."
Depending on the option chosen, family coverage costs the county $12,000 to $14,000 a year at present rates, which have been increasing 5 percent to 8 percent a year, according to Risk and Insurance Director Jennifer R. Pitarresi.
Thus, Smith's coverage would cost the county $9,000 to $10,500 a year.
In other measures, the Legislature passed a resolution of support for the removal of the Robert Moses Parkway along the Niagara River Gorge as far as Findlay Drive in Niagara Falls. Under the $52 million "Alternative 3," which the Legislature endorsed, the two northbound lanes between Findlay Drive and Center Street in Lewiston are to become a "park road."
State Sen. George D. Maziarz, Assemblyman John D. Ceretto, Assemblywoman Jane Corwin and Rep. Chris Collins all have endorsed Alternative 3.
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6 Ways 'Fallout: New Vegas' Made Me a Worse Person
I May Secretly Be a Hoarder
Apparently the only thing stopping me from living in a hand-built castle forged from old People Magazines and cat corpses, is the amount of physical effort involved. Hoarding is just too much work in real life, and to be honest, I'm simply not organized enough. My virtual self, of course, is untroubled by the hellish tribulations of lifting and moving things with his arms, and so I've learned that, when there are no physical requirements to collecting garbage, I will instantly transform into an eighty year old widow whose family doesn't visit so much anymore. In New Vegas my character refuses to throw literally anything away on the off-chance that, somewhere down the line, I might discover a secret formula that lets me combine a coffee pot, two boxes of macaroni and cheese, and a pound of gunpowder into the world's deadliest superweapon.
It fires toasters. See? IT'S ALL USEFUL.
The end result is a grizzled and dangerous warrior, trundling around the virtual post-apocalypse performing great and heroic deeds - saving the president, fighting off ravenous demons, freeing captured sex slaves - who simply will not stop until he either accomplishes his mission, or stumbles across an abandoned dresser containing six irons, a pressure cooker, and seventy-two empty cola bottles.
If I'd Realized This About Myself Sooner:
I'd still have the complete Moon Knight catalogue, and those knee-pads I bought during that week in '93 when we all collectively forgot how gay rollerblading looks. Those are collector's items now, man!
I Am Inherently Good (Unless I Want Something You Have)
I genuinely went into this game trying to behave with the same set of morals, standards and personality traits that I have in real life, for better or worse. And for the most part, my video game counterpart is a good person: He doesn't steal, he doesn't hurt the innocent, he always tries to help when he can, and he occasionally murders senior citizens for their eyeglasses.
When you first start the game, you have the option of choosing genetic traits for yourself - a series of attributes with both negative and positive repercussions. One of them is called Four Eyes, and it gives you a bonus for wearing glasses, a penalty for not. Since I wear glasses in real life, and the trade-off seemed fair, I took it. But I was stupidly figuring that if you built a character who has needed glasses for their entire life, and you join them sometime in their early twenties, they would have either found a pair of fucking glasses by now, or else died by comically falling into an open manhole. I was wrong. After several hours of wandering the desolate nuclear deserts half-blind and miraculously stumbling to accidental victory like Mr. Magoo, I finally found what is apparently the last pair of prescription eyeglasses in the entire world...resting on the face of a kindly, if a bit gossipy old woman running a beat-down hotel. There was no hesitation: I took one look at her face, double-checked that the door was locked, walked back over to her desk, and put six bullets in her face. For her glasses.
I really like those frames, ma'am...If I'd Realized This About Myself Sooner:
Well, I've paid for prescription eyeglasses about six times in my life, at an average of around $150 per pair. So if I'd come to this shattering self-realization sooner, that would've meant two things:
1. I would have saved like $900 dollars.
2. I would've gone down in the record books as the Third Least Intimidating Serial Killer in History, just behind Penguin Ted and the Soft Hands Strangler.
I Might Be an Alcoholic
New Vegas presents you with a list of companions to take along on each mission, and they all have specific traits, fighting styles, and 'perks' (special abilities they grant the player when travelling with you). Here is the list: An impossibly strong, schizophrenic purple hulk, who grants you nigh-invisibility.
The best sniper in the world and overall murder machine, who highlights your targets for you in the dark.
An adorable hipster girl with explosive fists, who allows you to build weapons on the fly.
An effete gay doctor with a laser gun (and later, full robot armor) who helps you heal faster.
A Mexican Zombie MacGyver, who fixes all of your shit for you.
And a redneck chick who is utterly useless in battle, has no redeeming personality traits, and has a history of alcohol abuse.
Guess which one is going on an epic journey that will change the fate of mankind forever?
Yep. It's the glorified Denny's waitress. Why? Well, her special power - the perk she grants your character whenever she's around - is the ability to get slightly drunker than usual, and to wake up without hangovers. This is the team I decided was best suited for saving the ravaged world from itself: A girl whose turn-ons include "Muddin'" and The Boot Scootin' Boogie, one squirrely bearded dude wearing a fire helmet, and eighty-two bottles of whiskey.
If I'd Realized This About Myself Sooner:
I would have been wearing fire helmets more often. That's just a good look.
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On a day when the world was celebrating animals, Gisele Bündchen was paying tribute to one of her own.
"My best friend, she will always live on in my heart," the model wrote on her Facebook page Thursday, which was World Animal Day. "Let's never take for granted the unconditional love that our animals show us every single day."
Vida died last year; she would have been at least 13 years old.
Bündchen, who is expecting her second child with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, brought Vida home in the late 90s, and the Yorkie held one of the top spot in her supermodel mom's heart.
"She has a higher place in that house than I do," Brady said in 2009, according to the Boston Herald. "If anything happened to that dog, I may as well jump in the Charles and not come up for air!"
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are pleased to see that the Federal government is interested in the
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America (Tesla Roadsters are manufactured overseas and in small
batches, while the mass produced 2011 Nissan Leaf will initially be
produced in Japan). It gets 40 miles on a charge, thanks to its
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quote: Yeah I love how suddenly everyone who isn't a radical leftist is a "right wing nut job extremist".
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Tory Bodeen grew up in South Carolina, in a small run-down house, where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt—and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child.
After young Hope's brutal murder, unsolved to this day, Tory's life began to fall apart. And now, as she returns to her hometown, with plans to settle in and open a stylish home-design shop, she is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of the past. As she forges a new bond with Cade Lavelle—Hope's older brother and the heir to the family fortune—she isn't sure whether the tragic loss they share will unite them or drive them apart. But she is willing to open her heart, just a little, and try.
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Divine Fits
A Thing Called Divine Fits
I remain unsure of just what exactly makes something "indie rock." It no longer seems to refer to recordings released exclusively on independent labels with zero major label affiliation. If the Black Keys and Jack White's various guises are still indie rock, then they're fulfilling that role while signed to major conglomerates. So is indie rock a guitar sound? A certain "scuzziness" in the production department? A haircut? A badge to be worn with snarky pride by a card-carrying hipster?
Ah, to hell with all of it. It seems that indie rock is simply a slightly less annoying descriptive for "non-mainstream" rock than is the road-worn "alternative music." Let's leave it at that, and let this new indie-rock supergroup - Divine Fits, comprising Spoon's Britt Daniel and Handsome Furs Dan Boeckner - float or sink based on its own buoyancy.
It isn't surprising, considering the resumes of both men, that "A Thing Called Divine Fits" is, at the very least, consistently interesting, and during its highest peaks, downright fascinating. Naturally, it sounds a bit like both Spoon and Handsome Furs. But there are also elements of early Talking Heads, Television, Kraftwerk and Berlin-era Bowie on display.
Most tellingly, the album manages to blend Boeckner's more electronic-oriented tendencies with Daniel's sometimes cacophonous guitar-centric compositions, without coming off as the least bit schizophrenic.
"Flaggin' A Ride," for example, boasts a textured stutter of a guitar figure from Daniel over a chilly, clinical drum machine program and a taut bass line. The push-and-pull created by these seemingly incongruous elements grants the music a delicious tension. "Would That Not Be Nice" marries a '70s New Wave influence to an echo-laden lead vocal that sounds like it was tracked in an abandoned auto plant. "Civilian Stripes" boasts a quirky skittishness that marries the glorious sloppiness of Guided by Voices to a Tom Verlaine-esque vocal brimming with a mildly dorky sexual tension.
Whatever you need to call it, "A Thing Called Divine Fits" is an inspired creation. Fans of both Daniel and Boeckner will likely be more than satisfied with their musical coupling.
- Jeff Miers
Chick Corea and Gary Burton
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Here is Chick Corea on the subject of playing with Gary Burton: "Throughout our 40 years of making music together, there has never been a downside with our duet. Each concert and each recording we have done has always been a great pleasure and a personal inspiration. This new set of duet music is no exception. Until this recording we never focused on 'standards' with our duet, but it was natural to do as these songs are from the era we grew up in."
You could, if you wanted, charge that up to the sort of cheery hype people are supposed to impart in disc notes or in publicity interviews or at public appearances where everyone is behaving with mannerly propriety. Which, if you ask me, would be letting mindless, cheerless cynicism do the work that your celebratory listening apparatus ought to be doing.
What has been blazingly self-evident from their very first ECM disc "Crystal Silence" is that very few modern jazz musicians have ever been more perfectly attuned to one another than Corea and Burton. A lot of that is due to the fact that both are natural collaborators with almost anyone and everyone so it stands to reason that when two great virtuosos who seem born to collaborate find each other, something Olympian indeed can result.
That's the case here on a disc where the word "standards" shouldn't be taken too far. Yes, it's true that "Can't We Be Friends," the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" and "My Ship" are "standard" enough to have long lines of interpreters over the decades. And, sure, Tad Dameron's title bebop standard fits the word to a T. It was, in fact, something of an anthem during the bebop era and what Corea and Burton do is formidable.
But there's nothing all that standard about Monk's "Light Blue," Bill Evans' "Time Remembered" or Dave Brubeck's "Strange Meadow Lark" other than their sublimity within the oeuvre of three exalted and wholly idiosyncratic jazz composers.
These are spectacular jazz players who think so much alike that their ensemble discipline is close to chamber jazz perfection and their improvised phrases could, if left unfinished, be instantly picked up and finished by the other with only their different instruments telling you who was who.
The disc's finale is as non-standard as can be - a version of Corea's "Mozart Goes Dancing" played with the Harlem String Quartet to announce a format they'll be touring with next year.
Chamber jazz doesn't come any finer than this.
- Jeff Simon
Barber: An American
[Harmonia Mundi USA]
Conspirare is Latin for "to breathe together" and this mixed Texas ensemble does give the impression of breathing together. The group is also noteworthy for its eclectic, sometimes wacky, repertoire. (They did a great job several years ago with Carly Simon's "Let The River Run.") As Conspirare's discs go this one is rather sober. Samuel Barber could write wonderful melodies and his harmonies and orchestrations are arresting, but many of the songs here are grim and abstract. Even the themes are bleak. The songs include one about the death of a soldier; another about an environmentalist who was hanged; "The Virgin Martyrs" and the funereal "Let down the bars, O death." "The Coolin'," a romantic Irish poem, gets a pale setting and even "The Lovers," songs set to smoldering poems by Pablo Neruda, are so tepid and tuneless they sound pretentious and ludicrous. (I would squirm with embarrassment at a live performance to hear men singing solo, in clinical counterpoint: "Strip off your clothes . strip off your clothes ...").
Even the Easter Chorale is more wondering than jubilant. The Agnus Dei is a choral arrangement of the famous Barber "Adagio" and the other famous piece is "Sure On This Shining Night." There is beauty here, I guess, but it is a quiet and diffuse beauty and your appreciation of it will depend on your personal taste. Conspirare sings gloriously, but it is a good thing the CD includes complete texts, because without them you are lost.
- Mary Kunz Goldman
Taj Mahal
The Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal 1969 - 1973
Later this year, Columbia/Legacy will release the entire catalog of blues/folk legend Taj Mahal in remastered editions. To kick off the overhaul campaign, the label has released what turns out to be a wholly enthralling twin-disc collection of Taj rarities and unreleased goodies, in the form of "Hidden Treasures."
It turns out that the collection lives up to its name - rather than compile some sort of arbitrary "best of" collection targeting folks who have likely already purchased this material in multiple formats, Columbia/Legacy instead dug deep.
Disc one comprises mostly rare studio recordings tracked by Mahal and a cast of superior supporting musicians. Disc two offers up the entirety of a live concert, tracked in April 1970, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. None of this stuff has been made available previously, though there have been rumors of the Albert Hall floating around in bootleg form for many a year.
The music is all born in the blues but eager to commingle with forms as varied as reggae, rock, Caribbean and African. Beautiful stuff.


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This time there was no miracle finish for the College of Charleston.
UNC Asheville guard Andrew Rowsey scored 23 points and D.J. Cunningham added 12 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots to lead the Bulldogs past the Cougars, 67-58, in overtime Friday night before a crowd of 4,120 at TD Arena.
Three nights after their thrilling 83-82 come-from-behind victory over Charlotte, the Cougars (1-2) couldn't muster the same kind of magic against UNC Asheville (1-2).
Despite doing a lot of good things — Charleston had a season-low six turnovers and made nine of 10 free throws — the Cougars were doomed to fail by their poor shooting. The Cougars were just 22 of 70 — 31.4 percent shooting — from the floor and five of 27 (18.5 percent) from behind the 3-point line.
Certainly the Bulldogs, who blocked 12 shots, had something to do with the Cougars' dismal shooting performance, but Charleston had enough open looks at the basket to produce more points.
"We couldn't convert on the offensive end. We had a ton of missed shots," said College of Charleston freshman Canyon Barry, who finished with a team-high 18 points. "It's tough to win games when you shoot like we did tonight. I thought we ran our offense, we got a ton of open looks, but we just were not converting. It was one of those nights."
Facing a zone defense for most of the night, the Cougars were forced to take a season-high 27 3-point attempts.
"Normally I don't like us taking that many three-point shots, but Asheville zoned us and we reversed the ball and got open looks, those are good shots and shots I want us taking," said College of Charleston coach Doug Wojcik. "But you look at those shooting numbers and at the end of the day you have to put the ball in the basket."
The presence of Cunningham in the paint for the Bulldogs plus Jaleel Roberts, who finished with three blocks, stopped sure scoring chances for the Cougars around the basket.
"The secondary defender blocking the shots was a little bit of surprise," Wojcik said. "We knew (Cunningham) was a good shot blocker. Normally when Joe (Chealey) gets by someone, he's getting to the rim. When Joe did pass, we were getting it blocked. Give Asheville credit."
Rowsey, a true freshman, also proved to be a difference maker for the Bulldogs. Rowsey appeared to have unlimited range in his jump shot. Rowsey was a perfect five of five from the floor in the first half and missed just three shots in 11 attempts for the game.
"Rowsey is a heck of a player for a true freshman," Wojcik said. "I think his range surprised us a little bit early in the game. He extended our defense and once they got the lead, they controlled the tempo of the game. They ran the shot clock down on most of their possessions."
Led by Rowsey's 13 points in the first half, the Bulldogs led 31-21 going into the locker room.
The Cougars clawed their way back into the game, going on a 15-6 run to start the second half, and closed the gap to 37-36 on Anthony Thomas' layup with 14:31 to play.
Charleston appeared to take control of the game after a steal and layup by Chealey gave the Cougars a 42-39 lead with 11:08 to go.
But the Bulldogs answered with Jaron Lane leading the way and grabbed a 54-49 lead with 3:29 to play on his three-point basket.
The Cougars got another layup from Thomas at the 3:09 mark, and then both teams went cold until Hall connected on a 3-pointer to tie the game at 54-54 with 33.7 seconds to play.
"This team just never gives up," Barry said. "We proved that again tonight. That's going to help us down the road."
It was all Bulldogs and Rowsey in overtime. Rowsey hit a 15-footer to put Asheville up 60-56, and then sank four straight free throws to seal the victory.
The Cougars will face Miami, the defending ACC champion, Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at TD Arena.


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AUSTINTOWN - Retired Niles Fire Department Capt. John H. Hughes, 69, of Raccoon Road, formerly of Morse Ave., Niles, passed away Dec. 6, 2012, in the emergency room of St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown with family at his side.
John was born Oct. 19, 1943, in Warren, the son of Chester B. and Dorothy N. McFadden Hughes.
A 1961 graduate of Niles McKinley High School, he was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, serving as a petty officer 3rd class aboard the USS Eversole DD789.
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John began on the Niles Fire Department in 1968, progressed through the ranks and was a fire service educator for many years. He was also certified state fire inspector and was trained by BP Oil Co. at the Fire Protection Academy, University of Nevada, for petro-chemical fire extinguishment and containment.
Capt. Hughes was the Command Post organizer with his Emergency Disaster Services certification during the Niles Tornado of 1985.
A Cub Scout leader and an adviser for the Niles Little Red Dragons, John was also known for his artistic mural work, the holiday painting of the fire stations and the design for the logo of the Niles Fire Department.
He was a member of the William McKinley American Legion Post 106.
An avid gardener, he enjoyed boating, fishing and chess, and was an ardent supporter of the University of Notre Dame Football Team.
John is survived by his wife, the former Christine Lynn Dye, whom he married Jan. 3, 1983; his children, John H. (Diane) Hughes II of Niles, Tara L. (Tom) Owens of Huntersville, N.C., Susan E. Brown of Gastonia, N.C., Shawn J. (Angela) Hughes and Nicole C. Hughes, all of Niles; a brother, Chester; and 11 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Donald Hall officiating. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Robert P. McDermott Memorial Home and one half hour prior to the service Monday at the church. John will be honored at 9:15 a.m. Monday at the church by the Trumbull County American Legion Honor Guard for his service to our country.
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LAS VEGAS � He had a Las Vegas wedding to attend, but Bryan Dalia was hung over from some marathon partying the night before.
�I did two bachelor parties, back-to-back,� Dalia said, putting his hand to his forehead as he recalled steins of beer and shots of alcohol the previous afternoon at the Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas, then gambling, dining and drinking martinis at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas resort. He remembered �getting a little lost and finding myself on the floor of the Paris� hotel-casino, then �a few more martinis as I gambled my life away.�
�How are you doing now?� medical technician Debra Lund asked.
Dalia looked at Lund, swaying with the gentle rocking of a bus named Hangover Heaven as it rolled down Las Vegas Boulevard. Lund checked an intravenous fluid bag, hung from the ceiling, dripping a saline and vitamin solution into Dalia�s left arm.
�Better,� he replied. �My palms aren�t sweating anymore. I don�t have that, like, cold sweat feeling anymore.�
Dalia, from Caldwell, N.J., was one of the first patients on the rollout day of a mobile treatment center for tourists who spent the night before drinking in all the nightlife Las Vegas has to offer. For a fee, they get a quick morning-after way to rehydrate, rejuvenate and resume their revelry.
�I�m starting to feel great,� Dalia said. �This is really very cool.�
Doctor and board-certified anesthesiologist Jason Burke calls his fledgling business a medical practice on wheels, analogous to a physician with an RV offering X-rays, MRIs or mammograms, a mobile dentist or a blood-bank bus set up in an office building parking lot.
The idea, Burke said, is to bring relief to tourists with stomach-churning wooziness, headaches and body pains � symptoms that could ruin an entire day in Sin City.
�Many people come to Las Vegas with the intent to drink and have a good time,� Burke said as he moved between patients seated on plush benches in the retrofitted, full-sized tour bus. The casino scenery passing outside the windows, the flat-screen TVs, the ceiling mirror and the aide in the suggestive nurse outfit? Hey, it�s Vegas.
�I don�t think that Hangover Heaven is promoting drinking. I�m not eliminating hangovers,� Burke said. �The goal of the business is to get people back to their vacation. I�m decreasing the length of time they�re going to be hung over.�
Burke said his goal is to arrive within an hour at the caller�s hotel.
Once on the bus, treatment can take less than an hour for a $90 basic IV of saline solution, B vitamins and vitamin C. A premium package, $150, includes two bags. For an extra fee, Burke will bring treatment to a tourist�s hotel room.
Burke administers the prescription anti-inflammatory Ketorolac or Toradol for pain and Zofran, also known as Ondansetron, for nausea. Acid heartburn can be treated with over-the-counter ranitidine. Patients get a shot of the anesthetic Lidocaine to numb the skin before the IV needle is inserted.
�For the most part, it sounds safe,� said Dr. Daliah Wachs, a family practice physician and national satellite radio medical talk show host based in Las Vegas. �But this is kind of gutsy. He�s taking a risk.�
A patient could have an allergic reaction, Wachs said, or fail to fully report their medical history. For people with pre-existing conditions, Toradol can affect the kidneys, she said, and Zofran can trigger abnormal heart rhythm. There also could be complications for people with esophageal or stomach ailments from chronic alcohol abuse.
Still, Wachs said, emergency-room physicians and clinic doctors for decades have provided hangover sufferers with IV drip �banana bags� � so named for their yellow color.
�I think many doctors are kicking themselves because they didn�t think of this first,� she said.
Burke compared Toradol with over-the-counter Ibuprofen and said that in 14 years as an anesthesiologist he had never seen a patient experience heart arrhythmia from Zofran. He said he uses small doses of the drugs.
�This is a professional medical practice. We take a medical history,� he said. �I�m not a cowboy. I�m not going to grab someone off the street ... without knowing their medical history. If they do have something that might be complicated, I�ll refer them to an emergency room or tailor their treatment to avoid anything that might cause problems.�
Prospective customers are advised they shouldn�t drink alcohol for two hours before treatment and can�t arrive drunk. Walk-ups are turned away. Pregnant females also are declined.
�If they are pregnant ... they should not be drinking to excess in the first place,� Burke declares in his business plan.
In a medical emergency, Burke said he is capable and qualified to use hospital-style �crash-cart� equipment on the bus, including an automatic defibrillator; laryngoscope; pulse, blood pressure and oxygen meters; and emergency medications.
Steve Sisolak, a member of the Clark County Commission who helped nix a 2009 venture featuring a rolling �stripper mobile� with scantily clad women gyrating on poles, said he could see no reason to oppose Burke�s Hangover Heaven bus.
�Give him credit for creativity and entrepreneurship,� Sisolak said. �But you have to trust that he knows what he�s doing.�
Word of mouth already was spreading. Passenger Cameron Byrd, a tourist from Raleigh, N.C., in Vegas for his 32nd birthday, marveled at his feeling of recovery.
�My friend just texted me and said, �I feel like death,�� Byrd said, before responding with a solution: �We�re on the hangover helper bus.�


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Subsidies, contracts and how the upgrade plans of T-Mobile JUMP!, AT&T Next and Verizon Edge add up
0. phoneArena 19 Jul 2013, 10:00 posted on
Now that AT&T and Verizon have decided to join T-Mobile with new equipment upgrade plans, we dig deep...
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1. wendygarett (unregistered)
Too many confusion for those plan and end up screwed by Carrier...
might as well pick lumia 520 in the end and surfing for the spare enjoying WiFi in Starbucks...
$190 for lumia 520, $5 for a cup of Starbucks per day, WiFi for $0 per day...
enjoy good coffee, good wifi, with a lag-free device, killing three bird with one stone :)
2. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
if you want a s**tty phone sure
3. wendygarett (unregistered)
Enjoy your beast phone in a carrier's cage...
51. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Wendytroll, this is very temporary and only on one carrier.
4. Alantef (Posts: 288; Member since: 14 Sep 2011)
lol i was gonna say the same thing lol
5. VTEChump (Posts: 12; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
So if you "believe" in the $20/month subsidy built into the contract on ATT and Verizon, then both their plans are a complete ripoff compared to T-Mobile and EVEN THEIR OWN 2 year contract plans.!. I don't understand why you illustrate this in only one table in the whole article. ATT and Verizon are a joke.
6. wendygarett (unregistered)
They are carriers, what do you expect? Confusion everywhere...
7. VTEChump (Posts: 12; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
Sorry, I guess it is illustrated in the first two tables on page 4. Still confusing.
11. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
That number gets thrown around everywhere with no validation. It was likely drawn from the time when T-Mobile offered two tiers of plans, one to accommodate subsidized equipment, the other if you bought at full retail. However, a flat rate makes no sense in the other carrier's models (especially AT&T's whose plans are arguably built on a previous generation model). Subsidies, like other customer facing price points, are a moving target. They change like the weather and that is where the argument about subsidies lose some ground.
27. aliam223 (Posts: 2; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
what is SPRINT doing about this??? SMH
54. miles16852 (Posts: 241; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
what is that stupid SMH ???
8. HASHTAG (unregistered)
So it's okay to be confused after reading this article, right? Because I am definitely confused.
10. VTEChump (Posts: 12; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
That is exactly what the carriers want:). Basically, an argument can be made for T-mobile deal if you need to upgrade phones. But IMHO, the ATT and Verizon deals are a ripoff. You would be better off signing two-year contract's and selling phone on craigslist if you need to upgrade.
12. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
That is the best way to go across the board, buy a phone or two at/near retail and fund your own upgrades through selling your old gear. The second hand market for smartphones is very active.
14. VTEChump (Posts: 12; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
Agree, but the problem with that on ATT and Verizon (once again if you believe in the $20/month subsidy) is you are paying that subsidy, even though you paid full price for the phone. So they are charging you for a phone you have already paid for.
19. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
Coming from someone who sells ATT, VZW and T-Mobile at my job, and thus have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of all the plans, ATT Next and VZW Edge seem like a rip off.
T-Mobile Jump is reasonable, but you can still get subsidized phones on two year contracts through them at third party retailers (check out my long ish post further down) and they have a pretty low ETF which makes the value plans in general not great if you want to get a phone through them anyway.
As much as my employers would hate for me to say this, the best deal is always going to be a Nexus 4 unlocked and putting it on T-Mobile's insane $30 prepaid plan. But if you don't like paying $300 up front, there are some decent options on two year contracts still.
Long story short, I wouldn't consider any of these early upgrade plans, they seem awful compared to the previous two structures of subsidies and unlocked/prepaid.
40. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
What $30 prepaid plan? Link please. Seriously, I am not being snarky. I went to T-Mo and couldn't find a $30 prepaid plan. The best I found was a $50/month prepaid plan, but it was limited to like 250 Mb/month data on 4G/LTE.
43. _PHug_ (Posts: 444; Member since: 11 Oct 2011)
Can't find it on T-mo's web site easily but the plan is a partnership with Walmart.
49. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
Yeah, that's what I'm referring to. You only get 5GB of 4g speeds and 100 minutes of talk. But you can just VoIP and 5GB is plenty for someone like me.
If I wasn't on a Verizon dealer plan it would be that one for me.
55. miles16852 (Posts: 241; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
or google tmobile prepaid and you easily get,,,
30. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
The subsidy as it gets thrown around is a misnomer and not accurate.
13. wendygarett (unregistered)
Confusion is the greatest definition to define them.
We pay their confused plan, with confused money you paid till you lost count...
and what do we get? No unlocked bootloader... Jailed and fined us for secretly switched the unlocked Sims... Software update? help mercy what the hell is that?
Call me a troll or whatever, I'm telling this just to alert some blind customers who pay extra for nothing, and end up financial crisis these day...
52. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
You are trolling and doing so incoherently.
16. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
I'm going to be tweaking some things to give the article some more breathing room. Hopefully that will help.
18. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Lmao! I hope so, cause I'm confused as hell! But the way I see it, since I've already opted for equipment coverage on my Note2, I may as well go to a Jump! Plan. It gives me the equipment protection I'm already paying for and the opportunity to upgrade early. Kinda looks like a win-win, but I'm not sure. If I choose to skip my upgrade and keep the phone the full 2 years, is it mine? Or do I still have to turn it in when I upgrade? If I pay the $20 for the whole 20 months, I assume it's mine!
23. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
If I understand it correctly, you have the option (whenever you want to upgrade) of either paying off the phone or turning it in.
Could be wrong, but that makes sense to me.
26. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
I hope you're right. That just makes sense. Thanks!
9. Cha7520 (Posts: 221; Member since: 31 Oct 2010)
I'm just going to by the Nexus 5 in Oct and buy a AT&T Sim card using Straight Talk for $45 unlimited...forget all the confusion! LOL
41. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Link? I saw AT&T offering a $60/month prepaid with unlimited talk and text and 3 Gb/month data. Is there a better option?
44. _PHug_ (Posts: 444; Member since: 11 Oct 2011)
He said Straight Talk.
15. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
You're missing some information. What a lot of writers seem to not know (I've been seeing this absent from a lot of articles lately) is that you can still get a subsidized phone on a two year contract through T-Mobile at a third party retailer.
I happen to work at such a retailer, and have the brochure for their "classic" plan in my hand (that is to say, the two year contract plan).
2GB plan, unlimited talk/text is $80 on a two year contract, versus $60 with the value plan. Interestingly, they kept their old ETF structure of $200 if you cancel in the first 18 months, $100 19-23 months, and $50 in the last thirty days.
As far as I know, at least Staples (where I work) and Best Buy have the classic plans still with T-Mobile. The low ETF of $200 even if you cancel three weeks after you sign the contract makes this info very relevant for this article.
The up-front cost of the phone is higher than it is with the value plan, but still competitive with the other carriers. For example, I have the GS3 for $50 and the GS4 for $200 on a two year contract with T-Mobile.
17. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
Indirect retailers also have a host of other terms and conditions when you buy from them and we simply cannot investigate every retail option when buying a device. Even with Staples (or Best Buy or wherever) locations, a carrier's core T&Cs remain.
21. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
You're absolutely correct.
For example, Staples institutes a second ETF if you cancel within six months. This is because Staples up fronts the cost of the phone and gets paid back by the carrier for that signature after six months.
But, in the context of this article, where we are looking at upgrading after six months, if you cancel on the 181st day, you are off the hook for that second ETF and just pay the $200 to T-Mobile for cancelling. In which case you've paid $370 for a GS3 or $520 for a GS4 (phone+ETF+$20x6 months higher cost for plan), owned it for six months, and can probably get a large percentage back on ebay or craiglist for the phone because it's still relatively fresh.
Rinse and repeat. Seems pretty good to me, if you like to upgrade often.
48. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
That is not universal though, many indirect channels have their own ETFs tied to whatever carrier plans are in place.
20. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
That is the case for existing customers, but new customers can't get a device through third party. Or at least that's what the said when I tried to get come to T Mobile through Best buy.
22. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
I know for a fact that I can do new T-Mobile customers. Ported my buddy from Sprint to T-Mobile two weeks ago. On the actual unlimited classic plan, which is $90/month, subsidized GS4 and everything.
28. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Oh, wow! Best Buy could hav head 4 lines from me. Oh, well.
31. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
I can't speak for their policies, they very well may not be able to do new lines on the classic plan.
I hate that no one knows that Staples sells phones because I think it's a pretty great place to buy (a bit biased, obviously). For reasons like that; we're a bit of an underdog so some of our policies are lax compared to Best Buy and the other well known authorized dealers.
Example: someone came in with a T-Mobile ad with the GS4 at $99 (down payment for value plan, of course) expecting a price match on classic. I was like "uhhh" and my manager was like "sure, whatever." So some lucky person got it for $99 subsidized on the two year contract. I used to work for Radio Shack and stuff like that would have never flown.
24. joey18 (Posts: 589; Member since: 20 Jul 2010)
20 more on verizon thast sucks
25. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Didn't someone from Verizon already admit their Edge plan isn't a good deal??? Kind of all I need to know.
32. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
The plan faced a lot of criticism and their official PR response was something along the lines of "yeah, it's not great for everyone but we're giving you more options- that's good, right?"
Which is good. Unless they get rid of the old two year contract structure that is (imo) way better for the customer, at least in Verizon's case.
I posted this a bit higher, but I think T-Mobile's new early upgrade plan is the only one of the three worth considering.
29. aliam223 (Posts: 2; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
Sprint...You need to get your version of this plan!!!!!!!!!!!
35. ZeroCide (Posts: 777; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
No they don't, These plans all seem to be a big scam that the consumers pay for and the carrier benifit greatly. The Att and Verizon seem to be the biggest scam while the t mobile one is slightly less.
Sprint is fine with the plans they have.
33. ibap (Posts: 758; Member since: 09 Sep 2009)
All of these schemes seem designed to confuse customers. "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullsh*t."
36. kcwirelessrep (Posts: 1; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
I have been in wireless sales 7 years and find the plans slightly hard to follow and seem like your paying way to much for the device in most cases it would be cheaper to buy the device out right and trade in or sale your old device
37. dt3384 (Posts: 1; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
one major misinterpretation of the T-mobile Jump program on these charts is that it should have been calculated with a value of $2 instead of $10 because the true breakdown of the bundled insurance package is $8(ins)+$2(jump) for total of $10 p/month. customers have the choice to opt-in to insurance only or the bundled jump feature, it is not a requirement by any means. Therefore it is not a fair assessment to calculate and additional $8 p/mo for Tmo because obviously the numbers will be inflated because then you would have to calculate the cost of vzw and att insurance cost into this equations. Other than this one misstep this was a very informative peace that breaks down cost very effective so kudos for that.
38. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
There is nothing in the fine print on T-Mobile's website to substantiate what you said. PHP is available as a standalone feature for $8/month, but that does not mean JUMP! is only $2/month. For JUMP!, the required out-of-pocket expense to the customer is $10/month.
39. Jyakotu (Posts: 844; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)
Honestly, at this point, if I were to leave my Sprint family plan, I would just go prepaid and be done with it. T-Mobile has changed the mobile landscape, which is fine, but pure prepaid just seems to be the simpliest method right now. Buy the phone full price, put in a SIM card, and you're good to go. And if you want to "upgrade", just sell the old phone to pay towards the new one. Simple. Easy. Done.
50. lolrus (Posts: 29; Member since: 18 May 2013)
A lot of prepaid plans don't have LTE though, which is a dealbreaker for me.
56. Jyakotu (Posts: 844; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)
AT&T now offers LTE with GoPhone. $60 for unlimited talk/text and 2GB of LTE data + $10 for additional data if you need it. Sounds good to me.
42. scsa852k (Posts: 329; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
You only owe T-Mo the balance of the phone when you cancel.
"if you canceled at twelve months, your total out of pocket expense for any device is going to be $120 more than retail."
This statement is completely false.
45. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
It is completely true since the JUMP! plan carries a $10 per month equipment protection charge. That money is already out of pocket if the customer were to cancel 12 months into a 24 month payment plan. At that time, the remaining retail cost of the phone is due, and $10 per month in equipment protection will have already been paid as part of the JUMP! plan.
46. CSM201 (Posts: 3; Member since: 14 Sep 2012)
The article is incorrect about a "down payment" with AT&T. You pay nothing up front with AT&T Next, nothing down. 1st payment is applied to the following bill
47. Maxwell.R (Posts: 214; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
Added correction.
53. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Bottom line is monthly prices. Take four smartphone lines for a family. T-Mobile has them for 100.00, 500MB data each, talk and text unl. Add 10.00 per line for 2GB each, giving you 140.00/mnth. 180.00/month for all lines unl data, but, I am sure not everyone needs the highest plan. ATT has two price options: Family talk and Family shared data. 4 smart phones with 700 min share talk and unl text with 300 mb data each is 100+30+80=210.00. 3GB each would cost 250.00. Option 2 family data share is 6GB at 230.00 for 4 lines. 90 for data and 140.00 for the phones, talk and text unl. Version share plan is 220.00 for 4GB and 230.00 for 6 GB. T mobile looks to be the best, but the question remains for each person - coverage.
57. rick0204 (Posts: 1; Member since: 24 Jul 2013)
I have been with Verizon for years and have a very old plan that works for me. The plan is $60.00 per month. I needed a new phone this past weekend so I called Verizon. The rep said a discounted phone with a 2 year contract would result in my losing my old plan and I would need the new Share Everything Plan for $100 or so. I said no and went to a Tmobile store and started the Jump program with a new Samsung Galaxy 4. The total price for me on the first day was $204.00. This included the down payment, the Sim card and payment of the taxes on the full retail proce of the phone. I thought this was a great idea in the store but when I arrived home I started doing all kinds of calculations and was very uncomfortable with the Jump program. I called Verizon back and was told that there is a "Win Back" department that is only open Mon-Fri. I called on Monday and the rep said I can have my old $60.00 plan back if I agree to a 2 year contract with the Samsung Galaxy 4. The total price would be $217.49 for the phone and tax. I also added the $8.00 insurance to get the plan closer to the Jump bundle plan.
If I am doing the calculations correctly here is the cost of the new phone after one year on both plans:
1. Tmobile Jump - $564.00. This includes the $204.00 for the new phone, $60.00 x 12 = $360.00 (phone charge + jump charge).
2. Verizon - $543.00. This includes the $217.49 for the phone, $96.00 insurance and $230.00 ETF.
In both cases I can get another new phone and start over. With Tmobile it will cost me $204.00 if the down payment is the same and with Verizon it will cost me $217.49 if the discounted phone is the same price.
My new Verizon Samsung Galaxy 4 arrived today and i am porting my number back and returning the Tmobile device tomorrow. I will only have to pay for 5 days of service with Tmobile.
In doing my research I also found out the the deductible with the Tmobile replacement part of Jump is $175.00. With Verizon the deductible for a replacement device is $99.00. This is not an upgrade but a replacement if your device is lost, stolen or damaged.
I think the Tmobile Jump program will only work if you upgrade every 6 months no matter what. If you do then you get a new phone every 6 months and the cost for each new phone will be $384.00. I think Tmobile is hoping that the customers will be lazy and not upgrade every 6 months.
I was also uncomfortable paying sales tax on the full retail price of the phone at Tmobile on the first day. If I upgrade after 6 months do i get a refund of the sales tax on the remaining balance? Probably not and I would be charged sales tax on the full retail price of the upgraded device also.
I hope my calculations are correct.


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SSDs are continuing the march to ever higher storage capacities and part of the march to higher capacities is ever increasing prices. Perhaps one day flash prices will come down to the point where SSDs are more in line with the price of traditional HDD storage today.
Intel has announced that it is upping the capacity of its line of SSDs to 160GB. Intel is lagging behind its competition in the capacity wars for SSDs. Intel's 160GB capacity is measly in comparison to the massive 512GB SSD that Toshiba announced recently.
At the time Toshiba made the 512GB SSD announcement, pricing for the drives was unknown. CNET News reports that Toshiba is now saying the 512GB SSD will go for $1,652. A similar capacity 2.5-inch laptop HDD sells for under $200. Toshiba's 64GB SSD, announced alongside its 512GB SSD, will sell for $220.
Intel reports that the pricing for its new 160GB 2.5-inch SSD will be $945 in lots of under 1,000. The 2.5-inch SSDs are sized for laptops and 1.8-inch versions of the drive will ship next month for ultraportable laptops according to CNET News. The new 160GB SSDs will be versions of Intel's X25-M and X18-M units.
Considering that the 80GB Intel SSD adds a whopping $659 over the cost of a 120GB HDD in the HP EliteBook 2530, the cost of admission for the new SSD with twice the capacity likely won't be appealing to most consumers.
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A South African safari experience at an intimate camp in the world-renowned Kruger Park, provides for excellent game viewing, bird watching, and a close to nature experience.
This 3 day Classic Under Canvas Safari Package is based on a 2 night stay in one of the prime game viewing areas of Kruger National Park. The package is ideal as an affordable option for short bush breaks and those who want to get away from it all in the wilderness.
Many African wildlife safaris in South Africa rely solely on the attraction of the Big Five and often environmental awareness is overlooked in the rush to view the big game, but at this classic lodge, the emphasis goes beyond the wildlife.
Getting back to nature is a big part of the safari experience at this classic lodge and the guides are all trained to provide a truly memorable African wildlife safari in South Africa. With great game viewing and intimate, close to nature encounters, this package offers a classic Kruger Park safari experience.
Depart from Johannesburg this morning for your flight to Kruger Park. Here you will be met upon arrival for a road transfer to your Kruger Park Classic Safari Lodge. A portion of the transfer will be done through Kruger National Park en-route to the lodge, where you can have your first taste of classic Kruger.
Arrival at your lodge will be just after midday, where lodge staff will be waiting to assist with check-in procedures and taking you through to your room. You will then have time to settle in and freshen up before meeting back at the main camp. The first exciting open safari vehicle game drive will follow which is a 3-4 hour excursion deep into the wilderness. You will arrive back at camp in time to enjoy dinner under the African night sky.
Following your early morning wake-up call with coffee/tea and rusks, you will head out on an open vehicle safari game drive, during which your ranger will track African wildlife such as lion, buffalo, elephant, rhino and cheetah. After the game drive, a hot brunch will be served at your classic lodge.The hot midday period can be spent relaxing at the pool with a book, or maybe on your private patio overlooking the African Bush.
After lunch, you are taken out on an afternoon open safari vehicle game drive which also doubles as a night drive since you return to camp after sunset. This experience will give you the opportunity of spotting nocturnal African wildlife in their natural habitat. A traditional African dinner is served on your return to the camp. Discuss the days' sightings with new friends around the fire with an after dinner drink before turning in for the evening.
After another early wake up call, depart on the final morning open safari vehicle game drive where you will have a last chance at spotting any animals that you might have missed so far. Breakfast is served once you arrive back at the camp. After breakfast you will be transferred to the airport for your flight back to Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport.


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Katie Weber doesn't know it, but under different circumstances she would be welcomed as a daughter-in-law by Greeley West girls soccer coach Mike Lordemann.
Weber, whom Lordemann considers the epitome of a student-athlete, joined three of her Greeley West teammates — Dani Winn, Alissa Mascarenas and Daisha Shumpert — in the final athletic competition of their careers Friday night.
Now, excuse Lordemann for wearing his heart on his sleeve.
The longtime Greeley West coach was leaking with sentimentality after the Spartans' 3-2 loss to Boulder Fairview, ending the season at 5-9-1.
He oozed with kudos for his four seniors who have done the groundwork for the Spartans' move to the Class 5A ranks, enduring highs and lows along the way.
"All of them have displayed an unbelievable amount of leadership along with an understanding that the importance of family is second to none," Lordemann said. "Those four are the perfect example of what a high school athlete should be."
None of the Spartans' four standouts has taken the club route to earn their soccer stripes, instead playing other sports.
Weber will continue her career as a volleyball player at NCAA Division II Nebraska-Kearney.
"The other three are going on to be normal college kids," Lordemann said.
Mascarenas will attend the University of Northern Colorado while Winn is headed to Boise State University and Shumpert to the University of Arizona.
"Without those four, I'm not sure we would have had the ability to grow as a Class 5A program at Greeley West," Lordeman added, "They were the ones we needed on the team to get us up to snuff in the Front Range (Conference)."
The move to 5A hasn't been lined with flowers for the Spartans in most sports, sans boys golf and wrestling, which have produced individual state champions in David Oraee, Joseph Martinez, Austin Waterman and Emilio Martinez, respectively.
Waterman has a chance to become the school's first-ever state champion in two sports in the same year. He's currently a heavy favorite to win the 5A state discus title.
The boys and girls basketball programs are still trying to establish a solid foothold in the Front Range Conference while other sports have had just a small taste of success.
"It's not an easy move because the overall depth of the competition is a lot better," Lordemann said.
For Weber, the finality of an extremely successful high school career hasn't quite sunk in.
"Maybe just a little bit," Weber said. "After the game (Friday night), we were all emotional, and it's kind of bittersweet to be moving on to something bigger. I still love this (soccer) team and I love the volleyball team, too."
Now, back to Lordemann's universal overview of Weber.
"She does everything perfectly," he said. "She is always positive, and I've never heard anybody say a bad work about Katie Weber. If I had a son, I'd want him to marry somebody like Katie Weber."
Samuel G. Mustari covers sports for the Tribune. Reach him at (970) 392-4437 or via email at email@example.com. Follow him on twitter @samuelmustari or @GTribSports.


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It is good to find out that we do finally have a two tier .NET framework.. I know a lot of people that said that it would never happen, but why should every windows machine have workflow foundation/wcf/asp.net etc?
On a brand new Windows 7 machine, that most likey will come with .NET 3.5, will the client profile remove this or will they run side by side?
Hi vesuvius,
Yes, Windows 7 comes with .NET 3.5 SP1. .NET 4 will work side-by-side, so it will leave your .NET 3.5 Sp1 alone. From there on, you get .NET client profile + full as two skus.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong here:
So if I want to write an app that uses HttpUtility.HtmlEncode or UrlEncode, the user needs to install the full framework, or I need to roll my own.
A lot of users will be installing .NET twice per version. I can already hear tens of thousands of people screaming "but I thought I already installed .NET 4".
I honestly fail to see how this is a good thing. More versions of .NET for embedded/mobile OSes would be nice, but more versions for Windows just seems silly.
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This is an excerpt from my new book, Organizational Psychology for Managers
Our discussion thus far has focused on individual learning with an organizational context. How, though, does an organization learn new skills?
An organization is, in a very real sense, not an actual physical entity. It is a conceptual construct held together by bonds of common purpose and culture. As we already know, culture is in the minds of the people who make up that culture. Learning, as we already discussed, is a change in behavior. Organizations achieve lasting, permanent behavior change when the lessons being taught are incorporated into the culture and organizational narrative of the organization: in other words, when people not only learn the lessons being taught, but also view those lessons as part of being successful in the organization. Culture is the residue of success, after all, so when we enable people to learn new skills, give them opportunities to exercise those skills, and demonstrate that those skills, or other lessons learned, are routes to success, we start to encode that information in the culture. The more visible those successes, and the more they are publicized, the faster they will be encoded.
People can exercise their skills publically or privately. They can be successful in their own little corner of the world, or their successes can be shown to others. If we want the organization to learn, that is, to change large scale behaviors, we have to show the successes. If the goal is to spread a particular methodology, then the information the organization disseminates needs to explicitly connect the new methology with success. If the goal is to teach flexible problem solving, then what gets publicized needs to be the exploration, experimentation, and loss cutting behaviors that enable flexilibility.
A key part of organizational learning is moving from people using their skills individually to using them together. Remember that the point of an organization is that it is a community with a purpose: to accomplish that purpose requires that people learn to work together smoothly. In other words, we want to create the high performance teams we discussed earlier. Just as an individual baseball player's ability to hit, throw, or field are important parts of the game of baseball, it is the ability of the team to coordinate those behaviors and support one another that makes or breaks a team.
Organizational learning is thus the act of spreading success throughout the relevant portions of the business. This is an aspect of organizational growth and change. It is usually a gradual process, although we will look at ways of speeding it up. First, though, we need to understand the role of accreditation in cementing learning and status and in defining something as a success.


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PreviewSouthern 105
PreviewSouthern is a great way to experience life at Southern for yourself. If you're thinking about coming to Southern and are not currently attending a Southern Union academy, this event is for you.
Be our guest for:
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I love this - I love yellow too! And I wish I could freehand as well as you...stencils for me all the way!!!ReplyDelete
wow you have very nice handwriting for free handing!ReplyDelete
I love the sign! :)
Wow I could never handwrite with a brush like that ! Even after 4 years of university art class !ReplyDelete
This is sooo cute!!ReplyDelete
So, so cute! If only my 'freehand' looked like yours!ReplyDelete
I love it. It makes me want to start a painting project today.... to bad I have so much laundry to do that isn't going to be happening. :-( Oh well. Good job though... the party will be cute!ReplyDelete
so simple and cute, emily. can't wait to see what the party looks like and how you do it! i love that pic of kohen with a milk mustache, btw. can't believe he's already turning 2!ReplyDelete
That's crazy impressive free hand my friend! :-) AmandaReplyDelete
I love scrap wood that I find in the garage. Thanks to hubby and boys making stuff and leaving things behind for crafty mommy and girls.ReplyDelete
Birthday on the cheap-we did a bakery party for my 7yr old. Donuts, mini cupcakes and cake pops. Pretty much close to free since we own all the baking gear.
You free handed that?! My free-hand writing could be mistaken for my son's five-year-old handwriting, not a beautiful template. Good job!ReplyDelete
Genius!!! Love it!ReplyDelete
p.s. your free-handing is pretty much rockstar girl!!!! :-)
Such a great idea! Thanks for sharing -- I have a huge pile of scrap wood in my garage and now I know just what I'm going to do with it. :)ReplyDelete
Very cute and creative. You have great handwriting! Or paintwriting?ReplyDelete
i guess you could pop that in the mail for me if you want. ha.ReplyDelete
Too cute! I love that song..ReplyDelete
oh, i love it!! xoReplyDelete
Oh wow, let me add to this list of comments and sing your handwriting praises! How is it that some people get all the good talents? lol :) If I made a sign people would tell my 8 year old she did such a nice job for her first attempt at paint-writing. Super cute idea, and my favorite song to sing to my babies. My little Avery,in particular, now 3 years old, would always stop crying to that one. {Sniff sniff} How quickly time marches on....ReplyDelete


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Solaris Reviews
By chhandomay on Oct 13, 2007
For this week, the standout review is by Tom Yager of InfoWorld, who focuses on Solaris as the "next best thing to OS X." Keeping in mind that Tom is a staunch OS X and Mac follower, this post is a solid endorsement of Solaris. In essence, Tom writes that Solaris is the best operating system to run on x64 systems. He feels in particular that AMD-powered systems are the best and since they do not support OS X, Solaris is the OS that does best. The reasons he cites are that it is "legitimate Unix and legitimate open source," "has free developer tools, and impressive ones at that," has "boundless" communities with great knowledge, and includes "baked in" virtualization.
Other blog review posts include the following:
Solaris on a Laptop -- The Trouble with Tribbles, 10/10
In this blog, Solaris admin Peter Tribble explains his positive experience with trying Solaris on a Dell D600. The first requirement for Peter was to have something looking like a production Unix environment, followed by installing a BCME driver that allowed access to the network. Next, Peter installed the ndis wrapper that allowed wireless to be accessed with the Broadcom 4320 wireless chip.
Jumpstart Profile Builder -- The Trouble with Tribbles, 9/27
This post by Peter is a great example how administrators are using tools with Solaris to solve specific problems -- in this case using the jumpstart profile builder to nicely organize packages and clusters. He includes a screen shot of what he has built for his environment.
Isolating Network Traffic with IP Instances -- Blog O' Matty, 10/09
Matty offers his impressions of Nevada build 57 and the impact that it has on the Solaris IP stack to support IP instances. He identifies a way to create an IP instance and how to assign it to a Solaris zone, and lists the process in a step-by-step format.
Getting Core Files When a Solaris Hosts Gets Confused -- Blog O' Matty, 10/07
This blog post discusses some problems with Solaris hosts that Matty has had in the past. He explains that to mediate the problem, he generates a core file from the running kernel to help isolate the problem.


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Culinary DelightsTraditional Swiss cuisine and regional specialties
SpecialitiesRestaurant Rothorn sits atop the Rothorn summit, one of the most beautiful vantage points in the Zermatt mountain world. The guests enjoy the impressive natural spectacle of sunrise and sunset as well as our culinary delights.
The youngest of our guests are particularly welcome. Children up to age 10 pay for the children's menus only CHF 1 per year of age.
Height: 3100 m a.s.l.
Local place name: Mountain railway station Rothorn
Accessibility: Mountain railway, ski slope
Built in 1986
Capacity: Over 100 guests can be seated on the terrace as well as in the restaurant.
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Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon vowed Thursday to ignore any proposed gun-control measures he deems unconstitutional, joining a growing chorus of lawmen across the nation opposed to new firearm restrictions.
In his opinion, Cannon said, those demanding harsher gun laws are "taking advantage of broken hearts" to push their agenda and restrict "a vital right" in the wake of the shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Cannon blamed misinformation from the media for heightening public fear of guns, and likened calls for harsher gun laws to blaming a fork for obesity.
To hammer home his point, Cannon dumped bullets out of a revolver and said, "The only way I can hurt you with this is if I hit you with it."
Cannon referenced his military background while saying an officer is obligated to weigh the lawfulness of orders before obeying. Enforcing what he considers to be unconstitutional restrictions would be a violation of the law and the oath he gave while being sworn into office, he said.
"Throughout history, 'I was just following orders,' or 'I was just enforcing the law,' is not enough to protect you from liability," Cannon said.
Cannon's comments came one day after President Barack Obama unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades. Obama called for universal background checks and bans on military-style guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines, such as the ones used in the Connecticut school shooting.
Obama also used his presidential powers to enact 23 measures that do not require the approval of lawmakers. The president's executive actions include ordering federal agencies to make more data available for background checks, appointing a director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.
Cannon is hardly alone in his disdain for the measures. From Oregon to Mississippi, Obama's gun proposals struck a nerve among rural lawmen and lawmakers, many of whom vowed to ignore any restrictions.
"A lot of sheriffs are now standing up and saying, 'Follow the Constitution,'?" said Josephine County (Ore.) Sheriff Gil Gilbertson.
In Minnesota, Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole sent an open letter to residents saying he would refuse to enforce any federal mandate he felt violated constitutional rights.
Not everyone approves of this approach. Some area residents on social media expressed outrage at Cannon's stance, and one man even started an online petition to push the seven-term sheriff to resign.
Cannon appears to be the first area lawman to take such a stand on gun-control measures. Attempts to reach several other sheriffs and police chiefs in the tri-county area proved unsuccessful.
Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner said he would prefer that people wait until Connecticut police finish investigating and evaluating the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before rushing to judgment on what may or may not be needed to adjust gun laws.
He said the federal measures might not even be within the jurisdiction of local agencies to enforce to begin with.
If Congress does send such measures their way, the actual powers of local lawmen to defy federal law are limited, constitutional law experts say.
"There may be a little narrow area for that, but he has to be careful," Charleston attorney Armand Derfner said of Cannon's stance. "He is a law-enforcement officer and his obligation is to follow the law."
Cannon said neither banning military-style guns nor placing more law-enforcement officers in schools will guarantee the safety of students.
Cannon expressed fears that new laws could lead government to invade homes of law-abiding citizens to seize guns. Such a policy would be ineffective, he said, because the majority of gun violence stems from firearms that were illegally acquired.
"We have more than enough laws right now, in most respects, to accomplish what we need," he said.
He said he remained wary of an all-powerful government, just as the country's founding fathers were when the Second Amendment was first drafted.
"I would argue that however sophisticated or enlightened we have become since then, there is nothing that has occurred in the last 250 years to suggest that we need to be any less concerned about that than the founders were back then," Cannon said.
The "general erosion of morals and ethics" is a contributing factor to rising gun violence, Cannon said, and law enforcement has been charged with handling society's failures, including the glorification of gangs and violence portrayed in movies and music.
Lilly Collette overheard Cannon's take on the gun debate while headed to the Sheriff's Office on Thursday. After Cannon made his concluding statements, she voiced her own thoughts on the issue.
"As a private citizen I have been very devoted to our local firemen and police officers, and as a result I voluntarily gave up all my guns," Collette told Cannon.
"No rational person needs to have a gun collection like I did," Collette said. "One is enough, and I realized I had collected six. That's not responsible gun ownership."
Dave Munday and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Reach Christina Elmore at 937-5908 or at Twitter.com/celmorePC.


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Carnes Crossroads, the revived mixed-use development on a 4,300-acre site at U.S. highways 176 and 17A in Goose Creek, is in sales mode.
Officials recently announced Carnes Crossroads Real Estate, the residential sales company responsible for all new home sales, has hired its first sales and administrative staff.
This marks the latest progress for the massive Berkely County project that is now taking shape with streetscaping and construction of the first single-story homes, starting at $230,000, in St. Thomas Park, the community's first neighborhood, officials said.
Construction crews recently completed a residential home at 513 Wodin Place, which serves as the information center for the development.
Carnes Crossroads has been in the works since 2006. Plans have included as many as 6,000 homes and several million square feet of commercial space to set up shop over a two-decade span.
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Toch: Piano Concerto no 2, etc / Andersen, Rotman, et al
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We LOVE these blinds! They look great, the valance is pretty, and they work smoothly. A great look in all of our rooms. We ordered for every room in the house!View this product
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By Best Blinds from NY
Blinds received were exactly as ordered. Very high quality blinds, great variety of finishes. I highly recommend.View this product