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Senate Passes Cornyn-Blumenthal Child Protection Act of 2012
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Source: By John Cornyn at Nov 28, 2012 8:41 AM
The Senate passed the Child Protection Act of 2012, introduced in the Senate by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
The bipartisan legislation seeks to protect young victims of child pornography, sexual abuse, and trafficking by strengthening law enforcements ability to protect victims and witnesses and apprehend perpetrators. It includes several important anti-human trafficking provisions authored by me and originally included in the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2011, legislation I introduced along with Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).The Child Protection Act has now passed both the Senate and House of Representatives and awaits the Presidents signature.
We need to provide law enforcement with every tool they need to crack down on the most vile criminals child sex predators and traffickers and protect the innocent young people who fall victim to these heinous crimes. This is an issue we can all agree on, and Im pleased Congress has passed this important measure in a bipartisan fashion. I hope the President will sign this bill swiftly to bring greater justice and protection to victims and allow law enforcement to take immediate steps to stop child predators and traffickers in their tracks.
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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 03:56 PM
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1. Announcement highly praised by http://protect.org/
VICTORY! Yesterday our Child Protection Act of 2012 passed Congress. Today it's on its way to President Obama's desk for signing. This was a major bipartisan victory, and a direct result of your support for PROTECT! We especially thank Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)...
More: http://bit.ly/TsrHyt
The new law includes several measures that our allies have been trying unsuccessfully to pass for years. Here are the highlights:
Reauthorizes our PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 ( http://protect.org/component/content/article/702 ), approving double today's child rescue funding for America's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. These task forces rescue thousands of children every year
Many Americans just assume that passing laws like this is easy. After all, who's not against child abuse?
But PROTECT members know better...
Exciting news! BTW, VP Biden was the Senate co-sponsor of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008.
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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 05:22 PM
proverbialwisdom (4,959 posts)
2. Backstory: Child Rescue Emergency Campaign 'Not One More Child'
Also relevant to locked thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014319676
Talking Points and Frequently Asked Questions for Organizers and Public Speakers
Child Rescue Emergency Campaign
Not One More Child
November 2011
Whats Happening Now
A national coalition of groups, the Not One More Child Coalition ( http://www.notonemorechild.org/ ), has launched a national campaign for child rescue, kicked off by the release of a new public service ad.
Background: The Crisis
Law enforcement has identified hundreds of thousands of suspects in the U.S., trafficking in video and images of young children being raped, tortured and sexually abused. These images are often called child pornography, but they are actually crime scene photos and child rape videos.
Our Governments Refusal to Provide First Responders
Yet, while authorities now know where these child predators areand in many cases have evidence leading to the doorstep of their victimsless than 2% are even being investigated, due to lack of resources.
Why Declare a State of Emergency?
Because it IS an emergency, and action cannot wait. Thousands of children are being raped, tortured and sexually exploited right now, and law enforcement knows where they are but is not rescuing them. They need search and rescue underway, immediately!
But isnt calling for a state of emergency a little extreme or naive?
Absolutely not. What is naive is believing that Congress or state legislatures will fund law enforcement properly and in time to secure the rescue of hundreds of thousands of children who are being tortured and abused right now.
Other Talking Points:
This is a fiscally conservative argument. This campaign is not asking for increased funds (although funds absolutely should be). We are asking for states and the federal government to use EXISTING resources.
2011 Crimes Against Children Conference Keynote Elizabeth Smart
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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 05:35 PM
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3. The 'MAP' discussed here.
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5. PROTECT.ORG: President Obama held an Oval Office bill signing for our Child Protection Act of 2012.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release December 07, 2012
Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 915, H.R. 6063, H.R. 6634
On Friday, December 7, 2012, the President signed into law:
H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act of 2012, which makes changes to the Criminal Code related to child pornography and protection of child witnesses and Department of Justice programs related to prevention and interdiction of child exploitation and child pornography on the Internet; and
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US Treasuries prices gained on Friday on tame inflation data likely to help the Fed keep interest rates near zero, but supply pressures and worries about Washington's budget fight kept prices lower for the week overall.
US consumer prices fell in November for the first time in six months, with the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index off 0.3 per cent on a sharp fall in gasoline prices.
"The crux of this report is simply that the inflationary backdrop remains very benign, providing the Fed with considerable breathing room to keep monetary policy accommodative," said Millan Mulraine, a senior economist at TD Securities in New York.
The Federal Reserve said earlier this week it will weigh inflation expectations in deciding when or if to raise rates.
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The subdued inflation data and the outlook for easy monetary policy supported the case for lower rates, and benchmark 10-year notes rose 8/32 in price to yield 1.704 per cent, down from 1.73 per cent late Thursday. Thirty-year bonds were 27/32 higher to yield 2.863 per cent, down from 2.90 per cent.
Nevertheless, benchmark yields have risen around eight basis points on the week on supply pressure and uncertainty about both the long-term implications of recent Fed moves and talks in Washington to avert abrupt fiscal tightening next year.
The Treasury sold $US66 billion of US government debt this week and next week it will offer two-, five-and seven-year notes as well as five-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
Investors are also still mulling the Fed's moves on Wednesday. The US central bank announced a new round of monetary stimulus and took the unprecedented step of indicating interest rates would remain near zero until unemployment falls to at least 6.5 per cent and longer-term inflation projections remain below 2.5 per cent.
Budget squabbles in Washington helped burnish US debt's safe-haven appeal as well. Talks between President Barack Obama and US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner over avoiding an automatic package of steep tax hikes and budget cuts next year have apparently stalled.
Analysts said on Friday it was increasingly likely that Washington won't be able to reach a deal before the January 1 deadline on the "fiscal cliff."
With a deal between Democrats and Republicans looking increasingly unlikely before the end of the year, Treasuries prices are likely to continue to be supported by safe-haven interest, said Mary Ann Hurley, vice president of fixed income trading at D.A. Davidson & Co in Seattle. "Even if they do a partial down-payment with some type of budget cuts, that is going to be negative for the economy, which is good for bonds," Hurley said.


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RIGA, LATVIA - Team Canada General Manager Steve Tambellini announced that four Edmonton Oilers players will represent Canada at the 2003 IIHF Men's World Hockey Championship, taking place in Finland, April 26-May 11, 2003.
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Andy Murray, Head Coach of the LA Kings, will lead Canada behind the bench as Head Coach. Mike Pelino (CHA), Barry Trotz (Nashville) and Rob Cookson (Calgary) will be Murray's assistant coaches.
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The Colorado Wine Festival Circuit
Summer is on the rise. You can't quite see it yet for the steep ridges above town, but the festival season is revving up. That includes the libacious wine festival season, and in the next few weeks I'm going to focus on some great events that are happening.
As has been reported, the Aspen Food & Wine Classic sold out in advance this year (for the first time since the recession bleached the economy). Maybe tickets were a bit pricey for your tastes, or you have "been there, done that."
Well, don't fret, get your wheels in gear and check out these outlying "other" Colorado wine festivals. I've chosen a few, from the urban confines of the Front Range, to magical settings in the mountains, not too far from us. None will quite match the star power or scale of the Classic, but will offer diverse samples of urban settings, art, history, gorgeous views, mountain-town strolls and exquisite musical pairings.
The fun starts June 2, at the Manitou Springs Wine Festival (www.manitousprings.org/2012-wine-festival [1]). Manitou Springs — jewel of southern Colorado — is a historic gold-mining town set at the base of Pike's Peak. It's a thriving artists' community full of galleries, set amidst tourist-trinket-and-taffy shops and an ancient penny arcade, with a dozen or so natural cold mineral springs bubbling up through artful sculptures. Ute tribal leaders once came here in summer for the healing waters, as did worldly English and even George Washington and his peers. (This intrepid wine writer lived there in the mid-'90s). On Saturday, 25 Colorado wineries will pour into Memorial Park. A must-do is dinner at Adams Mountain Café in downtown Manitou.
Staying along the Front Range, the next stop is downtown Denver. The city is host, on Saturday, June 9, to the Colorado Urban Wine Fest, held in the Performing Arts Center's Sculpture Garden (www.coloradowinefest.com/denver [2]). The event — put on by the same organization that has been staging the Palisade's Mountain Winefest — features more of Colorado's best wines. Channel the vibe of Ben Parsons' urban Infinite Monkey Theorem or stumble to nearby Domo for country-style Japanese in their breathtaking Zen garden.
A week after the Aspen Classic (and a veritable world apart) is the Telluride Wine Fest (www.telluridewinefestival.com/events [3]). The 31st annual event takes place June 27-July 1 in the famously awe-inspiring box canyon. (It gets even better with a wine buzz). At this comparatively quiet and small festival, the vibe of the town reigns. Master sommeliers and star chefs will lead seminars and tastings, but the highlight is definitely Saturday's grand tasting event: the Toast Of Telluride. Instead of a being herded through a giant tent lined with a maze of tables, festivarians stroll along downtown T-Ride's historic main street, Colorado Avenue, where shops and storefronts become individual tasting venues. Do dinner al fresco at the fabulous Rustico (where I once drank a '61 Barolo with the owner).
On the weekend of August 1-5, head north to Steamboat, where cowboys and ski bums will be swilling chardonnay and pinot noir alongside oenophiles and — you guessed it — chefs and sommeliers (www.steamboatwinefestival.com/Personalities.php [4]). Local fave Damon Ornowski, M.S., will be on hand to guide and color your experience. The "Boat" promises something for everyone — from food and wine tastings, to seminars and cooking demonstrations, to outdoor adventures with food and wine influences. Be sure to break away and head up to the Strawberry Park Hot Springs at some point for a spiritual dip in a beautiful setting.
Finally, the summer season ends with choices. Over the weekend of September 16-17, Snowmass Village holds it 8th annual event (www.snowmasswinefestival.com [5]), while the Colorado Mountain WineFest takes place down in Palisade, under colorful desert cliffs along the banks of the Colorado River (www.coloradowinefest.com [6]). The 21st annual festival features events in Grand Junction, and, of course, the grand tasting on Saturday in Palisade's River Park. Take in the best of Colorado's wineries and wait for the wine of the year to be announced, while enjoying music, food and local wines from Cortez to Grand Junction to Paonia to Boulder and beyond.
The obvious last choice would be to amble four hours south to the old mining haunts of Lake City and its Uncorked Wine and Music Festival (www.lakecityfestival.org [7]), held on September 15, nestled under the towering San Juans. Taste and unwind to bluegrass and old timey music with the likes of Russ Chapman, 18 Mile Radius, Blue Canyon Boys and Honey Don't; then dance your wine-soaked ass off to Euforquestra and the old-school grooves of Buckner Funken Jazz.
That should be enough to fill your schedule, and your glass. Cheers! Remember, wine reveals truth.
Drew Stofflet lives in Carbondale. Correspond with him at firstname.lastname@example.com
[1] http://www.manitousprings.org/2012-wine-festival
[2] http://www.coloradowinefest.com/denver
[3] http://www.telluridewinefestival.com/events
[4] http://www.steamboatwinefestival.com/Personalities.php
[5] http://www.snowmasswinefestival.com
[6] http://www.coloradowinefest.com
[7] http://www.lakecityfestival.org


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Does a Breast Lift or Implants Cause Loss of Sensation in the Nipples?
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Loss of sensation
In my experience, permanent loss of of sensation may be due to stretching of the sensory nerves by using very large implants causing a stretch injury or pressure on the nerves, extent of dissection which can damage the nerves, and the size of implant. I find that the location of the incision is not usually the reason for loss of sensation.
Choosing a board-certified plastic surgeon is important when considering surgery, as it will lower your chances of complications.
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Loss of Nipple Sensation with Breast Lift
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Loss of sensation in nipples
Nipple sensation can sometimes increase (to the point of irritating) or decrease (potentially completely numb). If changes do occur it is typically temporary and within 12 months most sensation returns to the pre operative state. However, permanently altered sensation can occur in up to 10% of women
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Nipple sensation and Implants?
Thank you for your post. In general, most women who have a disturbance in nipple sensation, whether it be less (hypo-sensation), or in some cases too much (hyper-sensation), the sensation goes back to normal with 3-6 months. Occasionally, it can take 1 - 2 years to be normal. Extremely rare, the sensation never goes back to normal. This is extremely rare in augmentation alone, more common in lift or reduction. Signs that sensation is coming back are needle type sensation at the nipple, itchiness at the nipple, or 'zingers' to the nipple. The number of women that lose sensation is much lower than 10%, closer to 1% in a simple augmentation. Unfortunately there is no surgical correction for this. Massaging the area can help sensation normalize faster if it is going to normalize, but will not help if the nerve does not recover. In women with hyper-sensitive nipples, this will go away with time. usually 3 months or so. In the interim, I have them wear nipple covers or 'pasties' to protect them from rubbing.
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Does a breast lift or implants cause loss of sensation in the nipples?
It is one risk of such a procedure, and one that you must consider, amongst others, as with any surgical procedure. You should consult with a plastic surgeon well-trained in breast procedures who will examine and discuss with you the various risks and benefits of the procedure(s) and assist you in deciding if such a procedure will be the right decision for you.
Breast Augmentation/Lifting and Loss of Sensation?
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Nipple sensory changes
It is difficult to predict why some women lose or have a change in sensation after a breast lift or implant placement. It happens to about 10-15%.
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Breast lift and loss of nipple sensation
Loss of nipple sensation is relatively common with a breast lift but fortunately, it is rarely permanent. Most of the time the numbness resolves in several weeks.
What causes loss of sensation to the nipples after breast surgery?
Sensation to the nipple area goes through a nerve that comes into the breast from the lateral side, branching out from under a rib. With implant surgery, it is vulnerable to being strertched or injured when the implant pocket is being developed in the lateral direction. For that reason, bigger implants probably have a higher risk of damage to the nerve. With a lift, there is more rearrangement of the breast tissue so thenerve may be affected closer to the nipple. Most of the time sensation loss is temporary.
Loss of Sensation with Breast Implants or Breast Lift
There is always a risk of alternation in sensation to the nipples with any breast surgery. However, this risk is rare. In many instances, there is a temporary change in sensation as the breasts heal, but most people return to normal sensation. Good luck.
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According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks. This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies.
But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities-- and the rulers who ordered them-- made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation.
"Special Tasks" is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire.
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Additionally, using proper writing style helps students improve coherence and readability. The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Writing Center has an excellent article on writing style.
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March 10, 2013
Dear Abbot Gregory and Confreres, Msgr. Betschart and Colleagues, Seminarians and Students,
I just wanted to drop a short note before the conclave for the election of the new pope begins this Tuesday. I haven't anything special to report. I learn most of what I know like any among you who are following it, reading papers and the various websites. I think that, living in Rome in a place like Sant' Anselmo, one perhaps hears more about it than would be the case elsewhere. It is the main thing that everyone talks about virtually all the time. And the news comes in here in real time, so maybe I hear things a few hours earlier than you might at home. It is striking to see how much it is covered on the regular evening news and in the daily newspapers. There are many takes on the whole thing.
Cardinal Levada has been so good as usual in including me as he can. He had me to dinner last Sunday, just the two of us. That was the day before all the cardinals began their meetings. We spoke at length of how Pope Benedict's resignation affected us and how we should be thinking of his successor. He asked my thoughts on many things and generously said that it was all part of what the cardinals needed to be thinking about. He always tells me of his love for Mount Angel and his gratitude toward us. We enter the conclave in some small way through his high regard for us.
Today, Sunday, many of the cardinals went to their titular churches throughout the city to celebrate Sunday Mass and in this way to get the Romans to be praying earnestly for their new bishop. Cardinal Levada invited me to concelebrate with him at his titular church, Santa Maria in Navicella. I did that. It was a beautiful Mass on a quiet Sunday morning.
As the cardinals go into the conclave, there is no solid indication of who likely they will select as pope. Naturally people guess, and the guesses seem plausible, every one; and there are many. Proof that no one really knows. Another guessing game is when the white smoke will come puffing forth. Some say as early as Wednesday afternoon. Others, not until Thursday morning. Then others say, "No, much longer." As I say, no one really knows. Archbishop Fisichella invited me to dinner this Tuesday. Like most of us, he doesn't expect an election on this first day.
Life goes on as normal this week, but an ancient Roman custom will have the upper hand. As soon as the white smoke rises, everyone is permitted to drop what he or she is doing and run toward St. Peter's Square to see the new pope as he comes out for the first time onto the balcony to greet us and to give his blessing. In this way, lectures are suddenly cut short, meetings ended, buses stop in their tracks if they are not headed in the right direction, etc. I myself look forward to getting there as quickly as I can. Cardinal Levada will, of course, be in the conclave, but he has given some of us permission to be on the balcony at the time for an excellent overview of the whole. His secretary is scheduled to be on hand to let us in. I will try to be there . . . and then write home to tell about it. (It is supposed to rain all this coming week.)
We pray for the Church!
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1999 Mercury Villager Reviews and Owner Comments
1999 Mercury Villager owners review and rate their 1999 Mercury Villager.
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I have had this Villager since September of 1999 when it was new. It has 125,000 original miles. Over all I have been very pleased with the van...used it to haul my wife and five daughters all over Texas, now it just gets me back and forth to work...Valve covers started leaking at 100,000 miles, replaced the front, back is a @#$&* to get to. Some electrical problems, had to have the front window motors replaced ...back power vent windows still do not work. front A/C went down last summer, rear A/C works so I have dryer tubing routing that to the front area...will have to break down some day and have it repaired, especially with summer coming.


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If your hair seems a little thin or sparse and you want to know how to get thicker hair that makes you feel youthful, sexy and appealing, you should know there are a few tried-and-true ways to do this. By learning the secrets of choosing the perfect thickening hair treatments and supplements, you'll be able to restore your crowning glory to its former glory! To help you enjoy thicker hair that happens fast, we have compiled a helpful quick guide that is loaded with practical, easy-to-follow hair thickening advice.
Stimulate your scalp
Massaging your hair scalp regularly with the lukewarm coconut or almond oil is one of the most effective ways of to prevent hair fall and to get thicker and healthier hair. Once you have massaged hair follicles wrap your hair with a damp towel. The entire process helps in strengthening hair follicle which in turn results in turn promotes hair growth and provide them luster and growth. Apart from massaging your hair from warm oil, a healthy diet is important for the growth of hair. Intake of proteins, vitamins and minerals in right proportion is an effective solution for hair fall. Drinking plenty of water and taking multivitamins as regular supplement help the hair grow thicker and longer.
Wash you hair carefully and choose the right shampoo
Those who wonder how to get thicker hair should take proper care of washing their hair. Shampooing your hair on regular basis is significant but those who overdo spoil their hair as it robs off moisture from our hair take care and do not wash your hair everyday as to would lead to dry and damaged hair with split ends. If your hair is oily then you can wash your hair with a gentle shampoo everyday which helps in removing greasiness from your hair. There are many who wrap their hair after washing them. This should not be done as this may lead to the breakage of hair as your hair is likely to get tangled. Also, always use a comb having wide tooth. Most of the times, we just get lured by the advertisements of shampoos and conditioners and end up in using the shampoos having harsh and harmful chemicals. Sodium laureate sulfate which is the main ingredient of any shampoo can cause extreme damage to the hair follicles.
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Use Natural Hair Products – Coconut oil is known to improve the strength and thickness of hair strands, and it's available (in its purest form) right at your local grocery store. In addition, you may find hair products that contain lots of silky, fragrant coconut oil extract. Massaging coconut oil into the scalp makes for the perfect, all-natural treatment for thicker hair. Just wash your hair after your treatment, and then let it air dry for best results.
Try Hair Growth Formulas – Rogaine and other hair-growth formulas may also help you to thicken your hair. However, these products are costly, and they do have some side effects for certain people who use them, including stinging on the scalp, tingling, and burning. If you're determined to grow in thinning areas and you think products with Rogaine's active ingredient, Minoxidil, may be right for you, just be certain to read all information about a hair growth product before applying it. Follow all package directions to the letter. Check hair products reviews online before deciding which Minoxidil preparations will really get the job done. Online feedback of this type will help you find affordable products with minimal side effects.
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With their project days away from launch, studio thatgamecompany has released a new trailer showcasing the PlayStation 3 title Journey.
The third-person adventure features online cooperative gameplay, as players explore the mysteries of what looks like a desert landscape.
In case you're wondering why details on Journey are scant, designer Jenova Chen says the goal was to maintain a sense of discovery.
"We wanted to have a beautiful, very vivid world that you don't know anything about that is fun to explore and is interesting to get to know," Chen told Game Hunters last June.
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.


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POPSUGAR Now Week of August 11, 2014
This Week on POPSUGAR Now: Jake Johnson, Daniel Radcliffe, and More!
This week on POPSUGAR Now, we're sitting down with some of the biggest stars of Summer's last few movies. We'll be chatting with the hilarious stars of Let's Be Cops, Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr., who also star together on New Girl. Plus, Daniel Radcliffe spills on his new indie romantic comedy, What If, and we're getting the scoop on the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie as well.
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Annan's hands clean on Iraq contract
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A key investigator of the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq said today there was "absolutely" no evidence that Secretary-General Kofi Annan had interfered in the awarding of a contract to a firm that employed his son.
But South African Judge Richard Goldstone said the inquiry was was still investigating "vigorously" whether Annan had advance knowledge of the bid by the Swiss firm Cotecna Inspection SA, which was awarded a lucrative contract in the humanitarian program for Iraq.
"We found absolutely no evidence implicating the secretary-general, Mr Annan, in the award of the Cotecna contract," Goldstone said on the BBC program Hardtalk.
"That was handled by the appropriate organs within the United Nations. And there is absolutely not a tittle of evidence suggesting he tried to influence that decision."
Goldstone's comments amounted to a stronger defence of the secretary-general than previous reports by the probe, which found "the evidence was not reasonably sufficient" to show Annan played a role in the bidding process.
Goldstone is one of three commissioners leading the UN-established Independent Inquiry Committee, along with Paul Volcker, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, and Mark Pieth, a Swiss professor and money laundering expert.
Annan's role will be analysed further in a comprehensive report due in September, shortly before the secretary-general hosts a summit on UN reforms with more than 170 world leaders.
At issue now is an email from Michael Wilson, a former vice-president of Cotecna, who said he met the secretary-general shortly before the contract was awarded, along with Annan's son Kojo. Wilson claimed he discussed Cotecna's negotiations with the United Nations and concluded the firm could "count on their support".
"It does throw new light on the question of the secretary-general's knowledge and that is being very vigorously investigated," Goldstone said.
"The email appears to be authentic. Whether its contents are correct are another matter."
Goldstone has said Kojo Annan, who was being paid as a consultant to Cotecna after he left a full-time job, was cooperating with the investigation, although he had not done so at first.
"There was a period when he refused to speak to us but he has been more cooperative," Goldstone said of the younger Annan, son of secretary-general's first wife.
Kojo Annan was being interviewed in Europe, Goldstone said,
The inquiry, headed by Volcker, released an explosive report yesterday that cited Benon Sevan, the head of the $US64 billion ($A84.1 billion) oil-for-food humanitarian program for getting kickbacks amounting to nearly $US150,000 ($A197,109). It also accused a procurement official, Alexander Yakovlev, of accepting bribes on contracts, outside of the program of about $US1 million ($A1.31 million).
Sevan has denied the accusations while Yakovlev has admitted them to federal prosecutors and is out on bail.
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Neither the Ontario Liberals nor the NDP plan to recalibrate the finances behind their platforms in light of a worsening global economic outlook.
"Even with the changes, our numbers are very conservative and cautious," said Liberal candidate Dwight Duncan, who was the last Legislature's finance minister. "We've laid out a plan with a lot of prudence, a lot of reserve and modest growth assumptions that will serve us well in the coming years."
(The Liberals' platform plans for 2.4 per cent annual growth in the province; RBC capital had originally forecast 3.1 per cent growth in 2012, but its September forecast revised that to 2.4 per cent.)
Mr. Duncan refused to even consider the possibility of Ontario's economy being dragged into another recession.
"That's a hypothetical I wouldn't project. No economist I've spoken to is predicting that at this point in time," he said. "We've laid out a plan for jobs and growth, a balanced budget plan that's been signed off by the auditor. And we've built in enough prudence and reserve that we can withstand the choppy seas we find ourselves in right now."
He did, however, use the financial uneasiness to make a pitch for Ontarians to keep the same government they've had in place.
"People are looking for leadership and a strong hand at the till. And by to-ing and fro-ing all over the place, Ms. Horwath and the NDP are demonstrating they simply are not ready to govern this province."
He also took a shot at Ms. Horwath's pledge to maintain existing restrictions on the expenses for which big businesses can get HST rebates (the Liberals promise to phase some of them out). "At the very time when you need steady leadership and certainty, she's creating uncertainty" by "tinkering" with the province's tax plans, he said. "I think she's pandering and playing politics."
Not so, Ms. Horwath argues: The hundreds of millions the province would save by preventing those tax rebates is "a heck of a lot of money," that could be better spent elsewhere.
"Why give $1-billion, potentially, in tax dollars to freebies for the bigwigs? I don't think people see that as a priority. Ontarians tell me the priority is jobs."
And, Ms. Horwath added, she wouldn't change anything to guard against the province slipping into another downturn.
"Our big focus is going to remain everyday people. It's going to be making sure everyday people have hope for the future. … I don't want to suppose there is going to be another big dip, although it may happen. And I think if there is, I think we have to make sure we're still focusing on putting people back to work and focusing on making their lives more affordable."Report Typo/Error
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Apologies to Neil deGrasse Tyson
Do you know what I hate? Catching myself talking smack just for the sake of hearing my own voice. When you're firing a ton of vitriolic guns, there can be a few casualties along the way; modesty and thoughtfulness come to mind. As you might imagine, I was less than pleased with myself when I read this snarky post I did back in 2012 concerning science's new Golden Boy, Neil deGrasse Tyson. I may have been a ...Read more ›


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For the record, I loved "La La Land." It's a touching, masterfully directed story of two Hollywood artists/dreamers searching for success and finding each other.
It's a unique and unlikely tip of the top hat to the great movie musicals, with terrific songs that stick in your head for days and totally engaging performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
But just under the surface of this bright, if bittersweet love story, it's easy to find the dark, ugly underbelly of Hollywood.
"La La Land" is sort of the modern, less cynical companion to "The Day of the Locust," Nathanel West's brilliant and pitch-black novel on Hollywood and its inhabitants - the dreamers, the losers, the locusts, those sad, grotesque hangers-on who think their life has meaning because they once met Gosling's caterer at a party.
These days, the "locusts" work for TMZ.
Watching "La La Land" conjured up my own decidedly mixed feelings about Hollywood, where dreams are realized but more often shattered.
Tonight, while you watch everyone celebrating at the Academy Awards, remember that while everyone inside the venue is one of the fortunate ones who had the right amount of talent and/or luck to make it, for every one of these shining stars, there are literally millions of others who never left earth.
They're the ones who still stand outside desperately trying to see, touch or make a connection with one of their favorite celebrities, as if they are gods. And there are even more millions who gave up their dream entirely and went back to wherever they came from.
Hollywood is both a magical place that celebrates creativity and inclusion, and a lost hell, a total facade where, as "La La Land" rightly notes, people worship everything but value nothing.
And yet the appeal is undeniable. Because we're all dreamers to one extent or another.
La La Land Destroyed America's Finest Novelist
When I saw the film, it immediately reminded me of West's novel, and the underrated 1975 film version of his haunting story. And it reminded me of all the great novelists who sold out and went to Hollywood after their books stopped selling.
Just as Gosling's "La La Land" character, a pianist and jazz purist, sold out by agreeing to join a band that played a bizarre hybrid of jazz and pop that he didn't personally like.
It's not only tragic, and eerily coincidental, it's also fitting that West and F. Scott Fitzgerald, two of the 20th century's most gifted American novelists, died on the same weekend in 1940, and that they both died in California.
West, reportedly distraught over hearing of his friend Fitzgerald's death by heart attack in Los Angeles, died in an automobile accident near El Centro after ignoring a stop sign.
Sadly, Fitzgerald and West, both of whom came to L.A. along with many other accomplished writers at various times throughout the past century to hack out screenplays for quick cash after their novels stopped paying the bills, both died young and somewhat disillusioned.
Los Angeles will do that to you.
"West and Fitzgerald were both writers of a conscience," Edmund Wilson, a writer himself and longtime close friend of Fitzgerald's, once wrote. "Their failures may certainly be laid partly to Hollywood, with its already appalling record of talent depraved and wasted."
Some things never change. Though Wilson died in 1972, I'm convinced he would not only say the same thing about Hollywood today, and but would find plenty of new and perhaps even more damning things to say.
I think West wold embrace "La La Land" for its ambiguous message about Hollywood, fame, and selling out.
I think West wold embrace "La La Land" for its ambiguous message about Hollywood, fame, and selling out.
He'd surely conclude that writers and other good people still come to Los Angeles to die, that so much of the real talent in Hollywood is still squandered, and that there remains in that Land of the Lost a locust-like swarm of grotesque wannabes and shrill apologists in chronic denial about the place in which they live and what it does to people.
Los Angeles, which for me is synonymous with Hollywood and vice versa, remains a place that is both wonderful and dismal.
While there are of course many truly kind, decent people in Los Angeles, the city is largely defined by fake sentiment and blind ambition. It's a place where nothing feels completely real, a place where style suffocates substance, where people are at once perpetually suicidal and obsessed with health and youth.
In L.A., You're Not Allowed to Age
Los Angeles remains a company town, a show-biz town, a superficial non-city where plastic surgeons are on seemingly every block and even many of its non-famous inhabitants enjoy a bizarre sense of self-importance simply because they drive the same choked freeways as celebrities.
Many Angelenos who are in no way connected with show business seem to feel this inexplicable validation of their very existence just because they met Emma Stone's personal trainer at the post office or know the guy who washes Hugh Jackman's dog.
Of course, our entire culture, not just Los Angeles, has become fame-obsessed. The locusts, as West called them in "The Day of the Locust," are now everywhere.
But those who are truly obsessed with both being famous and being near the famous and even semi-famous eventually find their way to L.A. – like bees to a pretty, poisonous flower.
In Los Angeles, the surreal Mecca of Celebrity, anyone who is even remotely recognizable quickly becomes dangerously delusional and addicted to themselves. It's a sickness for which the only cures are either death or cancellation – which, in Los Angeles, have the same meaning.
Unlike "La La Land," where both lead characters are generally decent people, "The Day of The Locust" is inhabited mostly by monsters.
West eloquently tells a deeply haunting tale of a group of dreamers, has-beens and lost souls all living on the fringes of the movie biz. The story's narrator, Tod Hackett, a smart and personable if benign young observer of the dysfunctional characters surrounding him – not unlike Nick Carraway in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" – comes to Los Angeles in hopes of making it as a scenic artist.
Instead, he becomes entangled in a web of lies and fears spun by his superficial new "friends."
Tod develops an unhealthy attachment to Faye Greener, a beautiful, corrupt wannabe starlet who's "kept" by a pitiful, decent simpleton named Homer Simpson (D'oh, yes, that is indeed where Matt Groening got the name for the famous cartoon dad in "The Simpsons").
Tod loves Faye, or thinks he does, but Faye, a prostitute by any definition of the word, has stars in her eyes and is neither interested in nor capable of real love. She isn't evil, but she is too narcissistic and insecure to be capable of true feeling.
Faye is classic L.A. If you live in Los Angeles or have ever spent a substantial amount of time there and tell me you don't know at least one person who fits this description, you're lying.
But Stone's character, Mia, too, is classic L.A. She's well-meaning, kind, idealistic and filled with hopes and dreams. And, lucky for her, she has genuine talent.
While Tod continues to try to seduce Faye, he prophetically lands a job working on a film titled "The Burning of Los Angeles," which foreshadows the book's horrific climax: an apocalyptic riot scene outside a Hollywood movie premiere at which Homer, who throughout the book is a gentle yet clearly tormented soul, witnesses the madness around him and finally snaps.
Up to this point, Homer holds his burgeoning disdain for all the cruelty and immorality in Los Angeles close to his vest.
But as the lost angels, or "locusts," begin to destroy everything in their path outside the movie house and start a raging inferno, just away from the spotlight the rage and despair in Homer erupts, too, as he mercilessly beats a bratty little child actress who represents to him everything despicable about Hollywood.
It's a terrible, inexcusable act, of course, but Homer isn't really the monster in this compelling story: Everyone around him is – especially this little girl who is both manufactured and destroyed by Hollywood. Homer is simply killing the monster whom he sees as evil. It's disturbing.
Significantly, Tod subsequently leaves Los Angeles, and will, presumably, survive. But the book really isn't as much Tod's story as it is Homer's, who may seem like a minor character, but isn't.
This story is in subtle yet undeniable ways a story told from the perspective of Homer Simpson's innocence. His degeneration from a sweet simpleton to a violent predator powerfully illustrates the influence Los Angeles has on everything it touches.
Fitzgerald Suffers Similar fate to His Most Famous Character
West and Fitzgerald both witnessed this story for real, in a sense, when they came out to L.A. to live among the locusts. When Fitzgerald moved there in the early 1930s, it was indeed the beginning of his slow but sure demise.
The man who wrote some of the greatest novels of American literature, including "Gatsby," of course, as well as my personal favorite, "This Side of Paradise," did complete "Tender is the Night" while in Hollywood, but soon after he delved deeper and deeper into that eternally sun-drenched Hollywood depression and sank to the bottom of a bottle.
In need of money, Fitzgerald began working as a screenwriter and fell in love with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham (Fitzgerald's wife Zelda had by this time already sadly lost what few marbles she had left).
Before his death, Fitzgerald began writing "The last Tycoon," a Hollywood novel depicting the life of a compassionate film producer who, like Jay Gatsby, rose from rags to riches.
Fitzgerald only finished six chapters of this would-be masterpiece, though, before dying in 1940 just a few days before Christmas. His death, the untimeliness and tragedy of it, is not unlike Gatsby's.
A year later, the manuscript and notes for "The Last Tycoon," which even unfinished amounted to one of the great novels ever written about Hollywood, were published.
But Fitzgerald and West weren't alone. A number of great American novelists – William Faulkner, James Agee and many more – courted Hollywood for various reasons, but typically for money as opposed to any creative pursuit. It was, in virtually each case, an act of commerce, and surrender. Really, it could be said that each of these writers went to Hollywood to die.
My Love/Hate Relationship with La La Land, the place
Since reading "The Day of the Locust" in my early teens and subsequently moving to California after I graduated from high school – though by design I've never lived in L.A. – I've held a sort of morbid fascination with all things Los Angeles, specifically Hollywood.
I'm intrigued by the fact that Hollywood represents, really, the best and worst of us all. The place where things are more "real" and more "fake" than anywhere else. A place where some of the greatest art (films and music) in the history of mankind had been created.
I've learned over the years that among those who make great films and music, even those who create lasting works of art in Hollywood with universally positive themes, only some of them ever practice the messages preached in their own art: goodness, fidelity, humility, courage, etc.
It's amazing how corrupt, immoral, unkind, terribly self-absorbed people can produce such pure, inspiring, life-affirming, wonderfully egalitarian art.
Of course, there are still "real" people in Los Angeles, good people who have normal lives and who insist they do live in a real community. There are lots of people in L.A. who work in the entertainment industry whose hearts and values are in the right place, and plenty more who have nothing whatsoever to do with the entertainment industry.
And yes, there is real art and real literature and real crime (lots of that), and, to a limited degree, real architecture in Los Angeles.
But for me, L.A. remains a place where the concept of "real" remains elusive. It's still a place defined by the unreal, a place with no center, no true sense of community, and no soul.
I've maintained through my 35 years living above Los Angeles (Santa Barbara) and now below (San Diego) a healthy disdain and distrust for the place.
For example, I love movies, but I still generally despise their accompanying culture and the so-called "movie industry." It's such an enduringly false, pretentious world, one in which nothings think they're gods and virtually every inhabitant is in deep denial about one things and/or another.
Denial – of age, of place, of traffic, of crime, of reality, of yourself – seems a virtual prerequisite for living, or at least living happily, in L.A.
If Nathanael West lived in today's L.A., he'd have plenty of fodder for an even more appalled sequel to "Locust." The only meaningful difference between West's Los Angeles and Los Angeles today is the traffic is about 1,000 times worse, there are thousands more plastic surgeons and wanna-be starlets/prostitutes, the Black Dahlia has become O.J., and Homer Simpson has transformed from a well-drawn, sad character in a classic novel into a literally drawn, funny character in a Fox cartoon series.
Essentially, "La La Land" hasn't changed much since "The Day of the Locust." It remains a sometimes magical place, where, still, nothing feels quite real.


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I thought the recipe was really tastey but inaccurate… I made 16 roll ups and still had a bunch of chicken mixture left over. I have no idea how you would fit all of that into just eight crescents!
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I know I'm commenting way after, but I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I put the mixture together and said, "No way this will fit in 8 crescents." I could've easily made probably 18, I'd say.
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Well it's October, so that means we're gearing up for Halloween, apple orchards and all that fun stuff. But there's also another event to look forward to this month: Oktoberfest! The traditional German festival is cause for a lot of fun, and a lot of drinking! I had the chance to speak with Beer and Wine expert Jim Laughren over the phone, and he gave us a whole bunch of info on the subject.
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There was a feeling amongst a lot of gamers that most of the games around Batman were never really good until the release of current games like Batman: Arkham Asylum (and its awesome Arkham City sequel), as well as the Lego Batman series. I'm currently playing Batman Lego 2 and agree that it's a great game. I can't wait to see the other two parts to see all of the other attempts at making a good Batman video game.
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The photographs were taken over a six week period in and around the City of Aberdeen in Scotland with the help of a number of willing volunteers.
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Updated 20-Jun-2013 : Building kernel deb package [ jump to this ]
This is a final how-to of this great year 2012, where I will show you how to compile a linux kernel and boot it on your linux box(it doesn't matter which distro you use).
To build the linux kernel, you will need the kernel source first. The best place to get the latest stable and unstable linux kernels is www.kernel.org. The latest stable kernel release at the time of this writing is 3.7.1. Go ahead and download the tarball for the latest kernel release(preferrably a stable release). Downloading the kernel source on a decent broadband connection is going to take a while, so sit back and relax. I personally prefer to clone the git repository for the kernel source, so everytime there is a kernel update, I don't need to download the entire kernel source. There is however no need to download the entire kernel source after an update, even while using a tarball. You can as well get a patch and apply it. Just to keep things simple, let us suppose you downloaded the tarball and extracted it somewhere, say to ~/linux-stable
Now you are ready to start building your new kernel. However, to build a linux kernel, you need to configure the kernel. Basically what this means is that, you need to tell the build system, what the kernel must include within itself and what must be built as modules and what is not neededin the kernel build. For example, you must specify what drivers you need for the hardware on your computer, etc. There are more than a thousand configuration options for the kernel, and it can be a daunting task to specify every single one of them on your own. The solution is to use the configurtion of your current kernel(i.e, the configuration of the kernel that is provided as part of the linux distro you are using). This configuration file should be named .config and must be present in the top src directory of the kernel.
So go ahead and copy the present kernel's config as shown below. The current kernel's config can be found in /boot with a name starting with config- followed by the kernel version.
$ cp /boot/config-* ~/linux-stable/.config
The new kernel may include options not found in your current kernel and thus there may be a few configuration options that you need to still specify.
$ cd ~/linux-stable
$ make oldconfig
You will be prompted with quite a few questions that will further configure your new kernel. If you are not sure what to answer to those questions, you can select the default by simply pressing the Enter key for each of the questions. Once the kernel configuration is complete you are ready to actually start compiling the linux kernel.
$ make -j`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -c processor`
Sit back and relax as the build is going to take a lot of time, especially when you use the configuration of your current kernel, because your current kernel configuration builds drivers for almost every hardware imaginable(even though you wouldn't need them), because your distro is aimed at a large audience. Using the current kernel's configuration is the safest way to build the kernel and get it to boot, however, you may try to modify the kernel configuration in ~/linux-stable/.config to suit your needs. The above command builds the kernel image as well as the kernel modules that get loaded dynamically. Now, all that is left is to install the new kernel image and kernel modules and to get the bootloader(ex: GRUB) to recognize and boot the new kernel the next time you boot your computer.
$ sudo make modules_install install
The above command installs the kernel image in the /boot directory, generates any initrd(initial ram disk) that is needed by the kernel during boot, generates a map file by the name of System.map(similar to a symbol table for the kernel) and also copies the configuration for the new kernel into the /boot directory(so that you may reuse it later to build another kernel, just as we did). It also modifies the bootloader configuration for you automatically, so that the bootloader(ex: GRUB) recognizes the new kernel. The kernel modules are installed into /lib/modules with the kernel version as the name and are linked to the kernel image. The kernel headers are installed into /usr/src.
That's it. You have now succesfully compiled and installed a new kernel, albeit without any modifications of your own to the kernel. You can boot into the new kernel by holding down the shift key after the BIOS message during reboot to show the bootmenu of the bootloader where you can select the desired kernel version to boot into(the latest kernel version is selected for boot automatically). After boot, you can verify that you are indeed running the kernel that you just built by running "$ uname -r" in a terminal which will show you the kernel version you are currently using.
If you find that you are unable to boot into the new kernel, don't weep(you might have got some configuration option wrong), there is always backup. You can always boot into the kernel that your distro supplied by selecting it in the bootmenu of the bootloader during boot.
Should you decide that you no longer need a particular kernel version, you can completely get rid of it by deleting the corresponding kernel's config, vmlinuz, System.map and initrd from the /boot folder and the corresponding kernel modules from /lib/modules and the kernel header from /usr/src. Once you are done deleting these files, all that remains is to update the bootloader by running "$ sudo update-grub2".
Should you decide to rebuild the new kernel from scratch run "$ make mrproper" in ~/linux-stable to clean the kernel configuration and all the files that have already been built and you are ready to start all over again.
Happy hacking :) and happy new year :)
UPDATE : 20-Jun-2013
Building your custom kernel as a .deb package
If you find that compiling the kernel is taking too long on your computer, and have another faster, more powerful computer at your disposal, you can build your custom kernel as a .deb package on the faster computer, copy the .deb packages to the other computer and install your custom kernel there. You can even use the same .deb packages to install the custom kernel on other machines.
On the faster machine :
$ cd ~/linux-stable
$ make-kpkg clean
$ export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=24 #change according to no. of CPU cores
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom \
kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
The above export and make-kpkg commands can be combined into a single command like below
$ fakeroot make-kpkg -j24 --initrd --append-to-version=-custom \
kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
After --append-to-version= you can write any string that helps you identify the kernel, but it must begin with a minus (-) and must not contain whitespace.
After building is complete, you will find two .deb packages in the parent dir of the kernel source tree. Copy them to your other computer where you want to install the custom kernel.
On the slower machine (where you want to install custom kernel) :
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-*
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-*
This step will also make an initrd image as well as modify the grub config for you automatically just as before. All you have to do now is reboot and enjoy your new kernel.
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