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Hunter Gatherers
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
directed by Mike Brooks
Victor Jory Theatre
at Actors Theatre of Louisville
The human race has made some headway over the last 50,000 years or so. We've got these cute shoes, these awesome phones, mortgages, thumbs — but have we really come so far? Anyone who's ever sat on a hot piece of broken-down public transportation, hit the mall on Christmas Eve or seen a singles bar between last call and closing will tell you that underneath our cosmopolitan veneer, our brand names and bachelor's degrees, lies the heart of something wild. Something savage.
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Star Wars: Episode I Battle for Naboo
Review by Azbats
"Hands down the best Episode One game avaliable"
Battle For Naboo was one of those games that I wasn't too sure about when I first heard about it. Rogue Squadron had been great, but with the continually mediocre Episode One games, the N64's dwindling popularity and LucasArts' hit-and-miss track record of late, I skipped over this title when it was released late last year. The fact that the game only made it to smaller retail outlets wasn't very encouraging either. Then I read IGN's review, and knew immediately I had to get this game before it was discontinued. Too finish off this long story before it gets to be longer than the actual review, I managed to nab the last copy of Battle For Naboo at my local mall. I was not disappointed.
Battle For Naboo takes us behind the scenes of the movie. It shows the extent of the Trade Federation's assault on the planet, and how the resistance was able to gather allies and keep the droids at bay until Queen Amidala returned. By making the main character an everyday officer fighting for survival in the midst of the chaos, the game provides a tighter, more emotional story than Rogue Squadron and gave me more incentive to make it to the final level.
Graphically, Battle For Naboo is on the same level of Rogue Squadron, with the environments greatly expanded. The second level has you zipping along grassy plains that seem to stretch out forever. The designers have paid great attention to detail, and all the vehicle models look impressive. The framerate is not solid, but generally constant. Perhaps the biggest surprise graphically is how the engine can go from taking the player through convincing buildings and landscape structures, then turn around and have the player flying high in the sky within the same level.
Many reviews have pointed out the superior sound work in Battle For Naboo, and the praise is justified. You'll realize this the moment you reach the main menu, and the Duel of the Fates wordless choir comes on in the background. Other music from John Williams' score has been reproduced. While the quality is not as good as the originals, the resemblance is uncanny. Plus the soundtrack includes a cut not included on the original music CD, when Anakin destroys the control ship. I found myself switching on the cart just to listen to the music at times. Other sound staples such as laser blasts and engine whines are true to the movies. Voice acting is also excellent, bringing life to characters you really never see, since they're also inside the vehicles.
Battle For Naboo's gameplay is solid. Whereas Rogue featured all air combat missions, Naboo has almost an equal amount of land and air-based missions. Mission objectives come in basically two varieties; seek and destroy, or protecting a convoy. Fortunately, the latter missions are not as frustrating as Rogue Squadron made them. Other objectives may include stopping enemy progress by destroying a bridge or blocking a tunnel. Add in the game's ability for you to switch vehicles in mid-mission, and you'll never be bored. Replayability comes in the form of medals to be earned and secret levels to unlock.
I was hooked on Battle For Naboo the moment I turned the game on, and can truly say this is one game Star Wars fans need to buy. For the uninformed, the game also comes with commentary ala DVD-style. This novelty alone is a reason to purchase the game, but not the only reason. If you've been put off by the merchandising madness and poor games of Episode One, at least look into Battle For Naboo, which feels like a true labor of love.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 08/05/01, Updated 08/05/01
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By Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Sujata Rao
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Brazil threatened on Friday to impose taxes on speculative foreign capital, firing a warning shot in a "currency war" its finance minister blamed on money-printing by Western central banks.
Guido Mantega said Brazil would not allow its real currency to appreciate excessively and was prepared to take all steps "such as those we adopted in the past".
"If necessary, if the inflows are even stronger, we have (the option) of short-term capital taxes that could (be introduced)," Mantega told reporters on the sidelines of an Economist conference in London.
"We will adopt new measures in terms of taxing of financial operations."
Brazil shocked investors in October 2009 by imposing taxes on some categories of foreign investment flows to local stocks and fixed-income securities. Back then, it said some of the flows constituted hot money and were harming the economy.
Mantega has been one of the foremost critics of the asset buying programmes of 'quantitative easing' that Western central banks have been using to shore up their economies, accusing them of in effect devaluing their currencies to boost competitiveness.


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Should Put the Enron Scandal on the Backburner
17, 2002
by kentuck
Like a rowdy bunch of black-hatted outlaws, the Republicans
are on the run. The Hole-in-the-Enron Gang want to blame the
fraudulent corporate failure on the Democrats. "If it was
so bad, why didn't Clinton do anything about it?" they
ask. To borrow their ill-advised caricature, "that dog won't
hunt." Furthermore, it won't even get off the porch.
The Democrats should head them off at the pass. They should
put the Enron scandal on the back burner for the time being.
Let the Republicans wallow in their defensive paranoia. It
is going to take a spell to hunt down all the culprits. But
the important matters have been made abundantly clear by this
government-enabled daylight robbery.
It is now obvious to most everyone that something needs to
be done about the influence of corporate soft money in our
political processes. Let the Republicans point fingers - and
rant and rave about Bill Clinton - all they want. We should
be very aggressive in passing Campaign Finance Reform at this
important time. Let them dare to challenge the need for such
Also, we should put to rest, once and for all, their impassioned
and greedy efforts to "privatize" our Social Security system.
Need we see more proof to know that we, the taxpayers, would
end up paying twice for these benefits? How many retirees
would be successful in their investments and how many would
invest in Enron-type stocks?
If there are to be reforms, it cannot be left up to the individual
to make that decision. However "undemocratic" that may sound,
we know that the latter-day robber barons would steal them
blind and take their hard-earned retirement dollars to some
secret stash in the Caribbean. We must act in a "democratic"
fashion to protect these funds so retirees can continue to
avoid poverty in their later years.
The Enron scandal is not going to disappear in the very near
future. Democrats should look at this time as a golden opportunity
to make the reforms necessary to protect our democratic processes
and our Social Security system. Let the paranoids run wild.
We will take care of business. The people deserve no less.
As soon as we make the necessary reforms, we can return to
the Enron scandal. It isn't going away.


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Meanwhile, Washington goes back to work after Labour Day with calls for wide-ranging inquiries into what went wrong following Hurricane Katrina.
BBC correspondents report on the latest developments.
Tuesday 6 September
The Bush administration is under pressure as never before over its handling of Hurricane Katrina. The president has admitted the initial response was not good enough and is keen to show the government is now doing everything it can. After meeting his cabinet, Mr Bush said he would lead an investigation into the failings of the recovery effort and that it was important for everyone to understand the relationship between the federal government, the state government and the local government when it comes to a major catastrophe.
But he did not say when his enquiry would start. Before getting involved in the blame game, Mr Bush said, he wanted to focus on saving lives and to that end, he's sending his vice-president, Dick Cheney, to the region, to make sure nothing is getting in the way.
So far, criticism has been levelled at local, state and national leaders. But it's FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has attracted the most condemnation and senior Democrats like Nancy Palosi are calling for action. She said there were two disasters, a natural disaster and a second disaster, the man-made mistakes are following Katrina.
At the Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans, a steady stream of military helicopters is still arriving. I counted six in less than five minutes.
On board, groups of men and women who'd been plucked from their homes more than eight days after Hurricane Katrina struck. They looked tired, bewildered and in the case of the elderly, in need of medical care.
But some of them at least are in good spirits, cracking jokes and thanking the Lord for sparing them.
But with some people still insisting that they will stay in their waterlogged homes, the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, has renewed his call for people to leave this city, warning that the threat of disease is growing by the day.
In Biloxi simply finding your house is a challenge and for those who do there is little to salvage. Home for Jennifer Byrne is now living on a mattress on a neighbours porch. Her house survived the hurricane but was so badly flooded that it is uninhabitable. The chances of disease here now are high.
At a makeshift triage unit they staff are worried as well, this part of the Gulf coast Dr John McKee told me it was like practicing medicine in a third world country.
If President Bush takes the blame for the failures in the wake of the hurricane, in the long term he is finished and he will be a complete lame duck president for the rest of this term.
It is vital for him for the blame to lie elsewhere. He needs this inquiry to point the finger at other people. There is a big, big element of getting your retaliation in first in this.
The American public however, through early results of opinion polls, suggest half think he has done a reasonable job and half think he has done a bad job. There is room for the White House to make their case and convince the American public it was not their fault.
Now that their most basic needs have been met, the survivors of Hurricane Katrina are looking to get on with rebuilding their lives.
Low cost housing projects, including creating trailer parks and tented villages are planned for several states and being complemented by individual Americans opening up their homes to the evacuees.
All week long, bodies have been recovered from New Orleans is flooded streets, some taken away to be identified others tied to lamp posts to stop them floating away. The city's mayor, Ray Nagin, was today asked whether the estimate of 10,000 deaths in New Orleans alone would prove to be accurate.
But, for the rescue workers still out on the water looking for survivors, it is too early to reflect. Their increasingly desperate search continues.
President Bush has acknowledged mistakes have been made but so far he's not taking the blame. Flanked by his cabinet on Tuesday morning he said that his administration was still focused on saving lives, not on pointing fingers.
Nevertheless he's accepted the growing clamour for an investigation into what went wrong and the clear indication that this would not just be focused on the role of federal government.
I'm standing outside the Ochsner hospital in New Orleans, it is the only hospital which has been operating throughout this crisis. It has been coping, there's some damage to the roof, some stagnant water around but otherwise it is in pretty good condition..
An hour or so ago they opened a mobile clinic and people have come from up to 100 miles around to get vital medicines. This included Liliane San Martino who has had a kidney transplant and travelled over 120 miles to get new supplies. She has been without them for several days.
Dr Joe Garvisco, head of emergency dept here told me about what types of injuries they have had to deal with during the last week. He said there were elderly people who were dehydrated and in need of their own types of medicine. Now they are seeing patients with storm related injuries, broken bones and the like and also some with injuries sustained during rescue.
President Bush is trying desperately to improve the situation on the ground and also repair some of the damage to his own reputation.
The post mortem has already begun. Senate committees will hold investigations into what happened and there's that call from Bill Clinton and his wife Hilary Clinton for this wider public inquiry - like the one held for the 11 September attacks.
I think the President is under pressure here but it's time now to show he's in control and he's putting all his political energy into resolving this crisis.
Teams of army engineers are here now pumping out the water. The influx of troops has stopped here now. There are 60,000 here now, still looking for survivors but also dealing with the grim task of recovering bodies.
New Orleans has become a surreal place for the people left here.
If you were writing the script of a disaster movie you might find it exaggerated to have army personnel carriers fresh from Iraq, still with Arabic writing on the back of them, meeting Texan Rangers on horseback with their Stetsons on all on the same street.
But that is the reality of life here.
Last night we witnessed the soldiers going out on patrol with night vision goggles because of course there's no electricity anywhere in New Orleans apart from at the police headquarters where there are massive generators installed.
Everyone is thinking "What happens next?". There are some 60,000 state troopers, soldiers and engineers undertaking the mass of work needed to be done here.
But it's going to be counted in months, not weeks, which is a hard reality for the citizens who just want their lives back to normal.
The Republicans and Democrats of those parties will be meeting with the President to discuss where they go from here in what is likely to be a more constructive atmosphere possibly than we've heard over the past few days.
There has been a bit of criticism, there has been a bit of recrimination about the response to the emergency not just by the President. Former President Bill Clinton said yesterday there should be a full inquiry and most people believe there has been a failure of government.
We're at the water's edge here in downtown New Orleans and I have to tell in spite of the fact that the levees have been repaired, there is one pump churning water back into Lake Pontchartrain. This tide level if you like, just hasn't moved over the past 24 hours.
Over the past day though, three American presidents have been in the region, George W. Bush and his father and Bill Clinton and he's the one who's been making the news by calling for a major inquiry into what's taken place over the past week.
He said it's widely believed that there has been a failure of government and all levels of government in dealing adequately with this disaster and lessons need to be learned.
Officials in Texas are to begin moving some of the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina out of the Houston Astrodome and onto cruise ships.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has chartered three boats for up to six months. Two will be docked in Texas, while a third will go to Alabama.
Between them, they can accommodate about 7,000 people and priority will be given to the elderly and those with special health problems.
A Fema spokesman said, however, that the evacuees would have none of the luxuries usually associated with cruise ships, saying the agency would only pay for people to have a room and something to eat.
It marks a change of emphasis for relief agencies. Having taken care of evacuees' immediate needs, they are now focusing on providing more longer-term care.
As well as ships, they are considering moving people into specially-created trailer parks and tented villages.
After the Labour Day holiday on Monday, Washington will go back to work with all eyes on Katrina-related business.
Two Senate committees will begin inquests shortly into what went wrong after Katrina.
But Senator Hillary Clinton, who is presumed by most to be the Democrats' likeliest presidential candidate in 2008, is leading calls for a much wider-ranging public commission of inquiry.
Among the extraordinary allegations being made by local officials in New Orleans, is a claim that the Washington-based Federal Emergency Management Agency turned away water and diesel fuel during the height of the crisis because various bureaucratic hurdles had not been jumped.
Shortly after completing a round of inquiries and reforms in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 2001, Americans find themselves starting the whole process again.
The huge repair operation is showing signs of progress. The broken 17th Street canal levee, the cause of so much of the flooding, has now been mended and engineers are beginning to pump water from the canal to reduce its unusually high level.
It is the beginning of the effort to drain a city where large areas are still submerged under several metres of water.
On the outskirts of New Orleans, where residents have been returning to view the damage to their homes, the first regular clinic is being opened, so evacuees who have been without essential medicines for more than a week can renew their prescriptions.
But the bigger picture remains bleak. The pumping operation could last for several weeks and time is running out for the search and rescue efforts. With each day, the chances of anyone surviving in the heat, without supplies, grows smaller.


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OK! Magazine has just made public the first wedding picture of Pamela Anderson and her new hubby Rick Solomon.
Almost two weeks after the wedding of Pamela Anderson and her new hubby Rick Solomon, OK! magazine has made public the couple's first ever wedding picture. The photo, snapped by photographer Damon Kidwell who got into it with Orlando Bloom in his car last week before the actor was involved in a car accident, shows the husband-and-wife all smile.
Speaking on her new status, the former "Baywatch" star told OK!, "I am finally fulfilled in my life in every area. I'm having the best time in my life."
And when it comes to the classical yet quickie wedding, the actress revealed it was "Rick who organized the ceremony from top to bottom, hiring Rachel Ashwell of Shabby Chic to transform a villa at the Mirage with white roses, balloons and hundreds of votive candles."
Pammy, moreover, also got help from friend and stylist Charlene Roxborough to pick out her cream denim Valentino gown and vintage Neil Lane jewelry for the ceremony, which she described as "unpretentious and super-genuine."
Buy the latests issue of OK!, on newsstand Thursday October 18th, to take a look at the wedding picture even closer and read the rest of the wedding details.
Pammy and Solomon tied the knot October 6th in Las Vegas at the Mirage Hotel between her two magic show. Attending the ceremony were Pammy's children, Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger, her family members, Tobey Maguire, Lukas Haas and magician Hans Klok.


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Ann Spangler is a best selling writer among Catholics and evangelicals and two Faith & Reason Book Club reader reviewers were drawn in by her latest work, with Lois Tverberg: Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faithfrom Zondervan.
Jonathan Aran, who describes himself as, "a theology student living in Malaysia who is into blogging, reading and applying faith to real life," praises the authors' "uncanny grasp of ancient Jewish material and words.":
If you think you have already scaled every wall of understanding of the Christian faith, saying that you have already known everything there is to know about Jesus, Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus would be the book that might jolt some of your well-held beliefs.
William Guice, a pastor, calls this book a "must read" that he uses often in teaching for it's "readability."
The book covers a lot of ground and the writers pick up on a lot of the tradition, symbolism and missed wordplay that takes place in Jesus' interactions with his followers but you never feel like you are bogged down in a technical work.
The question the book raises for me is...How much of what happens with Jesus & what he teaches do we miss interpret because we don't understand the context of the times?
Please comment here on your won thoughts on Jesus' Jewish background or the book if you've read it. Or start thinking now about the book YOU are going to review for the Faith & Readers Book Club. Fiction? Non-Fiction? Something that raised your spirit -- or your hackles?
Check the guidelines and send us your short, smart reviews at email@example.com.
On my wish list: Someone to review Leonard Nelson's Diagnosis Critical, on Catholic health care or Allegra Goodman's new-in-paperback novel, Intuition that delves into the medical research ethical dilemmas, or Garrison Keillor's latest from Lake Wobegon, Life Among the Lutherans.
Cathy Lynn Grossman is too fidgety to meditate. But talking about visions and values, faith and ethics lights her up. Join in at Faith & Reason. More about Cathy.
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I run it manually I get no such error.
I try to redirect the standard output to a file.
In the crontab file, you have to written
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The LS series of engines from GM Powertrain have broken new ground for efficiency and performance from a pushrod platform engine. The LS3 continues the engineering breakthroughs with revised cylinder heads featuring rectangle ports borrowed from the vaunted LS7. The heads feature 63 cc combustion chambers, 2.16-inch intake valves, and 1.59-inch exhaust valves. The camshaft features an aggressive .551-inches of lift on the intake side with less overlap (than the LS2) for even greater airflow and power. Rocker arms with a 1.7:1 ratio sit on top of the heads.
In the bottom end, the aluminum 6-bolts/main block features 4.06-inch bores and 3.62-inch stroke. A nodular iron crankshaft, powdered metal rods, and aluminum pistons (10.7:1 compression ratio) round out a rev-happy short block. Red line for the LS3 comes at 6600 rpm, and you will get there very quickly.
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On the Exodus Travels Land of the Tiger tour we explored 3 of India's top tiger reserves. And with more than 7 tiger sightings, it lived up to its name!
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How to thrive on a small group tour
By Mariellen Ward on February 7, 2017 in India, Responsible Travel, Travel Tips
Are you considering a small group tour? This post is for you. The top 8 things I learned on the Exodus Travels Land of the Tiger tour in India.


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Get an overview of this hotelHistoric New Orleans hotel in French Quarter, walk to Jackson Square
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Located in French Quarter, this historic hotel is within a 5-minute walk of New Orleans Pharmacy Museum and Jackson Square. French Market and National World War II Museum are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
An outdoor pool, coffee/tea in a common area, and concierge services are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a 24-hour front desk and tour/ticket assistance are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 16 rooms feature modern comforts like free WiFi, LCD TVs, and iPod docking stations. Free local calls, free bottled water, and ceiling fans are among the other amenities that guests will find.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Hotel St. Helene
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Hotel St. Helene features an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and coffee/tea in a common area. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. A total renovation of this property was completed in January 2012.
Hotel St. Helene is a smoke-free property.
- Year Built 1800
- Concierge services
- Total number of rooms - 16
- Number of floors - 3
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- 24-hour front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Outdoor pool
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
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- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Free local calls
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Shower only
- In-room safe
- iPod docking station
- Free WiFi
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
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Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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Special section: San Marino Murder Mystery
LOS ANGELES -- Shortly after a sheriff's deputy unlocks the thick, wood door of Dept. 107 on Monday on the ninth floor of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, trial will begin for a German national accused of killing his landlord's son, trisecting the body and burying it in the backyard of a San Marino home in 1985.
The trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 52, aka Clark Rockefeller, is expected to last six weeks in Judge George Lomeli's courtroom in the high security wing of the downtown criminal courts building.
"This is an interesting case," Lomeli told two groups totaling 150 potential jurors who gathered in his courtroom last week. "Stay away from any media. There are stories out there that are developing. We do not want you to be influenced. "
As many as 100 witnesses could be called to testify. Among them are detectives and criminologists, as well as Gerhartsreiter's old girlfriends and ex-wives.
Gerhartsreiter's past includes at least five identities and spans two continents, two coasts and cities both large and small. He made himself at home in Metropolitan hubs such as New York, Boston, Baltimore, Milwaukee and Los Angeles, and in relatively small communities such as Cornish, New Hampshire, Greenwich, Connecticut and Loma Linda and San Marino, California.
Gerhartsreiter was known as Christopher Chichester during his stay in the Los Angeles area from 1981 through 1985. Gerhartsreiter was charged in connection with the 1985 slaying of John Robert Sohus after a jury in Massachussets convicted him of abducting his daughter Reigh during a 2008 supervised visitation. He has pleaded not guilty.
Sohus, 27, lived with his wife Linda Sohus and mother Ruth "Didi" Sohus at the family home in the 1900 block of Lorain Road in San Marino. John and Linda disappeared in February 1985. John's body was discovered during a swimming pool excavation in 1994.
Defense attorney Brad Bailey asked jurors if those facts would influence their opinion of his client.
"There is an allegation that the body of the deceased victim was found on the property where my client once resided," Bailey said. "Is there anyone here that will automatically assume he must be guilty, if a body was found on the property where he once resided?"
Although postcards bearing her signature were delivered to friends and family in April 1985, prosecutors contend that Linda Sohus went missing at the same time as her husband.
Didi Sohus moved out of her home about a year after her son and daughter-in-law disappeared. An alcoholic and heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema, Didi wrote John out of her will and died nearly destitute in the care of a couple who managed a La Puente mobile home park.
Besides Gerhartsreiter, who as Rockefeller was a bon vivant conversant in subjects as varied as modern art and Chinese politics, the trial could gather a variety of characters to the downtown courthouse as both witnesses and observers. Among them:
- Patrick Rayermann, a retired Army colonel who once headed the U.S. National Security Space Office. He was a friend of John Sohus who will testify about the victim;
- Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Stewart, a friend of Gerhartsreiter and private pilot who flew the defendant to Santa Barbara in 1982;
- Jan Eldnor, a long-haired and bearded San Marino barber known as Jann of Sweden, who has been the source of endless information for journalists following the case;
- Mihoko Manabe, a former girlfriend of Gerhartsreiter's who witnessed his transformation into Clark Rockefeller during a stay at a Maine bed and breakfast;
-Sandra Boss, a high-powered business executive and consultant who married Gerhartsreiter believing he was Clark Rockefeller. The couple, who divorced in 2007 after 12 years of marriage, have a daughter named Reigh;
-Julie Gochar, a Baltimore Realtor who knew Gerhartsreiter as Chip Smith, and;
- Katherine McCormick, an executive with J.P . Morgan Chase who met Gerhartsreiter in Greenwich in 1985, shortly after he disappeared from San Marino.
Prosecutors asked Lomeli to compel McCormick's testimony and promised they would pay for her room and board as well as provide "protection from arrest and the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before her entrance" into California.
Prosecuting the case is Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian, an affable and accomplished prosecutor who attended USC and USC law school. He has been practicing since 1995 and is a member of the District Attorney's Major Crimes Unit. At the other end of the counsel table will be defense attorneys Bailey, Jeffrey Denner and Danielle Menard.
Menard, a grad of the University of Maryland, attended Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles. Although she lives in Rhode Island, Menard has been licensed to practice in California since 1997.
Bailey is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia School of Law. He has been an attorney for 30 years and served in a variety of capacities including an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, a homicide, drug crimes and sex crimes prosecutor in Middlesex County Massachussets and an assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston, where he worked in an organized crime task force. He has been an elected sheriff and spent one year as Massachussets' anti-drug czar.
Co-counsel Denner is a graduate of Yale who attended Harvard Law School. He speaks fluent Vietnamese and Spanish and has been a criminal defense attorney for 40 years.
Lomeli said he expects court to begin at 9 a.m. and assured potential jurors that he would do everything possible to keep the trial under six weeks.
Balian explained to jurors on Friday the concept of reasonable doubt.
"If the goal line is reasonable doubt and all I have to do is take the ball across the plane, I don't think anyone is going to make me run it all the way into the stands," Balian said.
The case has been profiled in two non-fiction books, a made-for-TV movie, fictionalized in a recent novel, and will be the subject of a third non-fiction book scheduled for release in 2014. Fox Searchlight purchased at least one account of Gerhartsreiter's tale with the possibility of turning it into a major motion picture, according to published reports.
Frank C. Girardot is the editor of the Pasadena Star-News. His book "Name Dropper: Investigating the Clark Rockefeller Mystery" is now on sale at amazon.com. Contact him at 626-657-0982.


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April 5, 2015 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Range Restaurant and Bar
$45 Adult, $20 Youth (5 to 10), 4 and under, Complimentary. +22% service charge.
Enjoy Chef Ryan's annual farm-to-table Easter brunch, highlighting produce from local farmers and foragers. View Menu
Children are invited to enjoy supervised egg hunts at the Range lawn at 11:00am and 2:00pm. There will be a designated area for children ages 5 and under, and a separate area for children over 5. Keep an eye out for real-life bunnies around the property, and a visit from the Easter Bunny.


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Find Your Adventure
Travel Stories
by Andy Alpine
I had forgotten how big they are.
Manta rays � first just one � then three � then six � approached us divers in the opposite direction as we swam along Modivaru Manta Point. With their 12-foot wing spans, they briefly blotted out the shimmer of the sun as they swooped above � seemingly as curious about us as we were of them.
I love to dive � so much so that my license plate declares �Scuba9� � a take-off on �Cloud 9.� No wonder I was in underwater heaven on a recent nine-day trip to the Maldives aboard the 85-foot motor yacht MY Manthiri, the pioneer in extended diving in the Maldives.
A tropical hideaway, The Maldives encompasses some 1,200 coral islands (200 of which are populated) scattered across the Indian Ocean southwest of India. Although exotic, the isles are easily accessed by air from the U.S. on direct flights through Europe or Singapore.
For some time now, Europeans have headed to the Maldives for sun-filled vacations. Charter flights arrive daily at the capital of Male, where guests are often spirited away by sea planes to resorts on distant atolls (the English word atoll comes from the Maldivian atolu). Now Americans are discovering another aspect of this paradise: its undersea attractions. And the best way to explore below the waterline is on a live-aboard dive ship. Since they are not limited to the reefs close to a hotel, live-aboards can take divers to varied sites. A typical dive cruise can travel 250 miles and take in three or more atolls depending on the duration of the voyage.
Since the airport in Male lies on an island, I took a water shuttle to get to the city itself. A few minutes into the crossing, a school of dolphin came to play in the ferry�s wake � to me, a wonderful portent of things to come.
I must admit that I had certain misgivings about going to the Maldives a year after the catastrophic tsunami that devastated parts of South Asia. However, the tidal wave passed over the Maldivian reefs without causing damage. The Manthiri itself gently rode out the tsunami and divers were in the water the next day. I also had been concerned about reports of coral bleaching several years earlier. However, to my eyes the reefs looked as pristine and colorful as on my visit to the Maldives nine years ago.
With 11 crew members attending to a maximum of 11 guests, the Manthiri is known for excellent service. There was daily laundry service and my T-shirts actually came back ironed. Nightly turn-down of my bedding made me feel as if I were staying in a five-star hotel (but no chocolates on the pillows).
Even more impressive was the pampering we received during our scuba sessions. Diving and the filling of tanks was done from the 54-foot accompanying dive boat (dhoni), the Vasantha, thereby reducing noise and busyness on board the Manthiri. The dhoni had two hot-water showers (an important luxury when you are diving three to four times a day). The dive staff not only assisted us with putting on dive gear, one guy even zipped the hard-to-reach back closure on wetsuits before each dive. Even the rungs on the dive ladders were positioned perfectly. After an often-exhausting dive, having an easy-to-climb ladder brought a smile to my regulator-covered mouth.
Most of Manthiri�s crew has been together for 10 years � Manik, still one of my favorite dive masters, was as thorough as ever with his pre-dive briefings. Not only was the crew�s camaraderie fun to be around, it made the flow of the day�s activities seamless. These guys enjoyed their work together and it showed. The food was superb with fresh fish curries the specialty of the house. Meals were served family-style with meat and fish, salads and lots of carbs as choices. Wine was included with dinner, along with lots of fresh fruit and ice cream for dessert. And food was certainly important: because we were doing four dives a day, we were burning calories rapidly. During our trip no one gained any weight! We were even offered dried tuna jerky and coconut immediately after coming up from our dives. This made the short cruise back to the Manthiri on the dhoni even more pleasant.
Best of all: the diving was superb � especially the encounters with the Manta rays. These gentle giants often come to the same spots each day to have their gills �cleaned� by smaller fish that provide that service. These �cleaning stations� are like spas for Mantas, and they are very happy to be there. As long as a diver stays beneath a Manta where it can watch you (the eyes are on the lower part of its body), it will hover unconcernedly above human spectators as it enjoys its �treatment.� On several dives as many as six mantas surrounded us. Some younger mantas playfully butted their chests like football players after a touchdown. Were they showing off?
The Maldives is famous for its enormous number of fish � we often encountered schools of hundreds. On several dives we came upon �fish balls� of blue-striped yellow snappers that clustered together so as to appear large to a predator. These swirls of fish are a photographer�s delight, offering incredible shots from all angles.
Moosa, one of our dive guides, suggested that I take a deep breath on my regulator and then swim into one of these balls. Since I wasn�t scaring the fish with my exhaled bubbles, the snappers stayed together and let me join them in the center. They floated together as I became part of their mass. I felt as if I were inside a yellow balloon with hundreds of eyes. They seemed undisturbed by my presence as I moved with them along the reef. When I finally did exhale, they parted into several groups and then, in moments, rejoined.
One of my favorite undersea creatures is the spotted eagle ray � to me, they are grace personified. Smaller than Mantas, they have an almost dog-like face and extremely long tails. Often the rays are seen gliding along reef walls � if divers are lucky, they might see groups of three or four.
Since many dive locales in the Maldives have a fair amount of current, I used a reef hook for the first time. This simple invention � a twisted piece of metal with a short cord � permits divers to stay in one place on a reef without holding on to a coral patch. You just place the hook in a protrusion to remain stationary.
Using the hook at a site called Cherry Caves, I was able to observe five eagle rays that flew past me in the strong current and then returned six times to ride the current back again. It was like watching the Blue Angels flying in graceful unison.
On another site, Mata Kandu on Felide Atoll, I took advantage of the reef hook again. A dozen grey reef sharks used the one-knot current to propel themselves along a coral wall; at the end they swam back to a spot right in front of me to repeat the �free ride.� The sharks didn�t appear as if they were hunting at all, but rather having a grand time in the current. They were later joined by a few white-tip reef sharks and a silvertip in what appeared to be a shark playland.
Moray eels receive bad press. Because of their sharp teeth and constantly opened mouths (it�s their way of �breathing�), they indeed look threatening. But to divers they are beautifully textured specimens. Like all undersea creatures, they are given respect; we look but don�t touch. I saw morays on almost every dive � spotted morays, mottled morays, green morays, honeycomb morays and more.
On one dive our sharp-eyed dive master spotted a juvenile blue ribbon eel. These Dr. Seuss-like eels start off with an all- black body then develop a yellow line across their dorsal fin. Their bodies turn bright blue and yellow as adults, then change to light blue as they mature, and finally light yellow before dying. Even odder: they are born as males and then mature into females (meaning that the females always get younger mates!). Seeing a blue ribbon eel is always a special occasion on my dives.
Another rare sighting is the ghost pipe fish. Since the creature is a master at camouflage, actually seeing one on a dive is like finding a four-leaf clover or getting a hole in one. Moosa found one for us that was posing like a piece of coralline algae. Somehow, this one-inch fish had picked out a piece of green, grass-like soft coral to live in that looked exactly like itself. I found myself asking � how does a fish know what it looks like?
As much as possible, the schedule was determined by what the divers wanted to do. At one point, the captain picked up on our disappointment when Mantas were no-shows at a site, so he anchored nearby so we could try the next day. This might have thrown off his planned itinerary, but it was what we divers wanted. And we were not disappointed since dozens of mantas swooped and hovered on the next day�s dives.
Since people know I�m an experienced diver (I�ve logged 1,000 dives), they often ask me, �Where is your favorite place to dive�? Now I have an answer � the magnificent Maldives!
FOR MORE INFORMATION: To book passage on the MY Manthiri contact LiveWell Ventures Travel Services: Tel. 877-357-0022 or 360-657-7872; E-mail: email@example.com; Website: www.livewellventures.com. For more information on the MY Manthiri see www.manthiriliveaboard.com.
�Getting to the Maldives: Flights are available from New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco on Singapore Airlines and/or Emirates Airline with convenient single connections and affordable pricing.
�When to Go: Plankton season � June through November � offers outstanding and reliable Whale Shark and Manta Ray sightings. December through April transitions into 150-foot-plus underwater visibility with the likelihood of seeing large animals.
�Daily temperatures range between 78 and 87 degrees Fahrenheit. During the year, slight variations in the temperature are caused by the monsoon. From November to April is mostly dry with little wind; the Southwest monsoon from May to October brings some rain and wind.


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Best Of :: People & Places
We feel so guilty.
Look, we know we're supposed to celebrate Mill Avenue, given its status as the closest thing this metropolis has to an urban shopping district. But, um, there's a new marketplace in town, and we can't resist the pull.
NoPho folks have had Desert Ridge for a while, and there are all sorts of grand shopping options popping up along the other edges of metro Phoenix, but the center of town was limping along without a mega-mall, 'til Tempe Marketplace opened late last year.
We're in love. We know the whole thing is beyond super-sized — down (rather, up) to the enormous "pots" outside the equally huge Harkins movie theater. But we just can't help ourselves. Despite the overwhelming number of teeny-bopper chains, there's something irresistible and, amazingly, community-oriented about this place.
One smart reason: free concerts by national acts, smack-dab in the center of the mall. Sponsored by 103.9 The Edge, a different band rocks the stage each third Thursday in front of Cadillac Bar and Grill, to the delight of Old Navy and Barnes & Noble shoppers.
Since the event started, we've caught smaller acts like The Hypo Twins and The Summer Set and veteran rockers including The Presidents of the United States of America and MGMT.
And then there's the Night Gallery (for details, call 480-965-6536), a smart, odd-duck approach to showing fine art. Night Gallery is open in the evenings (6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday — hence the name), and shows the work of ASU faculty, alumni, and grad students. The spot opened at the end of June and survives on donations, the largest of which comes from the company behind the mall (they kick in the use of the building and cover the A/C bill). Organizers say that a surprising number of people stumble across Night Gallery every day — as many as 1,000 in two to three hours. If you're looking for, say, a 9-foot bronze "vessel" by Mary Neubauer or one of Christopher Coluille's digital prints of a car graveyard in Iceland, this is the place.
The finer things in life (art, music, community) aside, we love to hang out at Tempe Marketplace because even in the summer, someone's figured out a way to make the misters so cold, they can build a roaring fire and it only seems slightly odd. Plus, we're slaves to Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Sorry, indie gods.
If you've ever felt the overwhelming need to be the center of attention (and the gaping stares of other people don't bother you), then visit Easley's Fun Shop. The Valley's most renowned costume store is a veritable freak factory, with hundreds of crazy getups within its yellow walls, not to mention the wacky wigs, madcap masks, and other outrageous accessories. Want to shock your friends on Halloween? Rent the "evil clown" ensemble. Got a gonzo costume party to go to? Slip on a pimp costume and also grab a John F. Kennedy mask for some wry political satire. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination, bub, because sometimes it's more fun being a freak show than seeing a freak show.
Considering the way our city has expanded over the past few decades, with people relocating from other states, sometimes it's hard to tell who was born here from those who've moved here. We've figured out a surefire way of determining who's a native and who's a Johnny-come-lately: Ask them about Legend City. Only true OG's born and raised in the PHX will remember going to the Valley's version of Disneyland, which was located near 56th and Washington streets on the border of Phoenix and Tempe from 1963 until it was felled by a wrecking ball in the early '80s. The joyous joint was filled with themed areas devoted to Arizona's Wild West history and culture, like Indian Country and Boom Town.
We've got childhood memories of bombing around the park, lining up for the spookiness of the Lost Dutchman Mine ride, floating down the River of Legends, or spinning around on the Krazy Kups until we were green in the face. Our first chance to meet Wallace and Ladmo also came at Legend City, as the hosts of the renowned local children's show were regular visitors, holding a live stage show weekly and handing out their coveted and candy-filled Ladmo Bags. Thankfully, the park lives on through Web sites (www.legend-city.com) and even its own MySpace page (www.myspace.com/legendcity), where former patrons leave loving devotions, like the one from a dude who wrote, "Legend City is truly legendary." Word.
Technically, Laurie Notaro moved away from Phoenix years ago. Yet she keeps coming back, usually in the form of her essays and fiction, now found in seven books — with more to come. In her latest, Flaming Tantrum of Death, Notaro proves you can judge a book by its cover (we always love her covers) particularly if you read the subtitle: "Reflections on revenge, germophobia, and laser hair removal." That's quite a trapeze act, we think. And obviously Notaro thought the same, given her cover art.
Fuzzy hair, bulbous nose, comically pompous, attorney Dennis Wilenchik had all the makings of a clown even before he pulled out ethical stops and went after New Times. As Sheriff Joe Arpaio's well-paid attorney on the taxpayers' dime, Wilenchik had learned from the harlequin-supreme. Nobody sports a bulbous red nose and a potbelly, while acting the fool, better than ol' Joke.
Even before Wilenchik put his big clown shoe in his own mouth in the New Times case and a judge put her stiletto up his ass, it was as if Joe were conducting clown college and Dennis was star student. Wilenchik went after Joe foe Dan Saban with the vengeance of Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, trying to get him fired from his job, bringing up Arpaio's smear campaign against Saban to practically anybody who'd listen. (It was right out of Arpaio's playbook.) Denny was all about extra-legal activities only tangentially related to his defense against a slander lawsuit Saban filed against the sheriff because of the bogus smear. That Wilenchik won that suit on technicalities must have emboldened him to take up his buffoonish mentor's cause against the alternative newspaper-thorn in the sheriff's backside.
We can just imagine him popping his suspenders with glee when ringmaster Andy Thomas asked him to enter the bit tent and attempt to tame New Times. The problem here was that County Attorney Thomas was asking Wilenchik to go into the lion's cage with whip and chair, and he was but a pitiful clown, prone to clown-like antics — such as trying to influence the presiding judge over the New Times case and ordering the arrests of the paper's owners for writing a story a story about abusive grand jury subpoenas he'd issued from a grand jury that didn't actually exist.
The capper was that the subpoenas demanded not only NT journalists' notes and communications regarding Arpaio, but the Internet-viewing habits of readers who'd clicked on the paper's coverage of the withered law-clown. All perfectly fine in the funny-haired world in which he and Arpaio reside, but unwise when handling big cats. He was reprimanded by the judge, and fired as special prosecutor by his beloved ringmaster — after public opinion took a big bite out of both their bozo asses. Raar! The result is that Wilenchik and Thomas are under investigation by the Arizona Bar Association, and we hope that these scary scaramouches get a good legal whacking. Now that would be funny.
If any of your candy-ass, 'fraidy-cat friends are too terrified by the Desert Storm's towering appearance to consider riding the 90-foot-high roller coaster (the biggest in the state), tell 'em the ride lasts only about a minute and a half, from start to finish. A mere 90 seconds. About as much time as it takes to nuke a microwave burrito. Although you may wanna skip over the part about how there probably won't be any time to be scared, as they'll likely be too busy screaming their lungs out in terror while zooming along 2,000 feet of steel track (including the initial drop of 85 feet) and blasting through two vertical loopty-loops at around 50 miles per hour. With that whole "nothing to fear but fear itself" thing going on, the less they know, the better. Besides, once they've busted their cherry and ridden it at least once, we're sure they'll be hopping back in line to go again.


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LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII is the final installment of the FINAL FANTASY XIII series. The dynamic new battle system shows what Lightning's really made of, the numerous quests allow the vast exploration of a dying world, and the diverse schemata (garb and equipment) available through downloadable content is an exciting addition to the myriad of items scattered throughout the game.
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Urban Sports Creating New Life in Civic Spaces
"At first these unusual games were not taken seriously by the world of organized sports but now they are attracting more and more followers. Christian Wopp, a sports scholar at Osnabrück University, believes only a quarter of all sport disciplines still take place in traditional locations such as stadiums and swimming pools. He sees "an ironic movement" in the trend toward alternative sports. Concrete and asphalt, Wopp suggests, "are being made into inhabitable environments again." Academics like Franz Bockrath at the Institute for Sports Science in Darmstadt also sees the spread of the new sports as a critique of the ever-contracting nature of large urban centers. To create new possibilities for movement, Bockrath says, young trendsetters have set about transforming cities' enclosed spaces."
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The Department of Industry is looking at ways to keep alive an energy efficiency reporting scheme, which is mandatory for large businesses, despite its funding being cut by the government last year, sources say.
The Energy Efficiency Opportunities scheme, established in 2006 by former prime minister John Howard, requires about 300 of Australia's largest energy users to regularly report on their energy efficiency and identify areas for improvement.
The government announced in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook in October last year that funding for the program would be cut from July 1, 2014, as part of its abolition of a range of initiatives it said were associated with the carbon tax and would save $1.3 billion.
But some involved with the scheme within the Industry department are trying to put a case that it be kept in some form and funding found from elsewhere. The department believes it has been successful in identifying ways for big business to improve energy efficiency.
"I think there is a large section of the department that has always thought the EEO is very good," one industry source said. "From a structural point of view the unwinding of the scheme is going ahead but there are a lot of people wedded to the scheme."
Legislation underpinning the EEO, which requires eligible businesses to meet its reporting requirements, has not yet been amended or repealed by the government, and no bills have been introduced to Parliament to that effect.
A review of the EEO's first full cycle of its operation conducted by consultancy ACIL Tasman in April 2013 found the program was effective in addressing ways to improve energy efficiency and had achieved energy savings "in addition to what would have occurred in the absence of the EEO program".
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane told a business group meeting before the election that he would be disappointed if the EEO were not able to be kept with some streamlining, according to those present.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the minister left open the possibility the EEO would be amended rather than abolished once funding ran out.
"The Energy Efficiency Opportunities program won't continue in its current form in the longer term as part of the government's savings resulting from the repeal of the carbon tax," the spokeswoman said.
"Funding to administer the program remains in place for 2013-14 and the Energy Efficiency Opportunities legislation remains in operation.
"The government is assessing ways to make the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Act 2006 more targeted and reduce regulatory burden, while still achieving energy cost savings for industry. If the Act were changed, there would be transitional arrangements put in place to clarify future reporting requirements."
Energy Efficiency Council chief executive Rob Murray-Leach, who is in favour of keeping the EEO, said the scheme cost relatively little for the department to administer and could continue in its current or amended form without the funding that was withdrawn last year.
"The EEO program is a critical program that improves the skills of the Australian workforce and businesses to manage energy costs," he said.
"Since it started, participants have identified over a billion dollars of annual energy savings. This program is essential to deal with rising energy prices, with gas prices rising from historical levels of $3.50 per gigajoule to well over $9 per gigajoule."
The Australian Financial Review


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By Gord Bowes, News staff

The Labrador retriever from New Orleans probably had a pretty rough life and might never behave properly.

Like many of the canines in the care of NOLA (New Orleans Louisiana) Lab Rescue, the dog they named Karma was likely abused.

But Anna Crapanzano was not going to be deterred from helping her out.

"When she came to us, she had extreme anxiety," she said.

Crapanzano and her husband Mike found Karma through an adoption website and wanted to bring her home as a companion for their first lab, Ollie.

But Karma was not an ideal pet — she was timid and couldn't be left alone without causing problems.

Crapanzano said she thought about giving Karma back to NOLA, "But I thought, she's home, we're going to work this out."

It was just a matter of building her confidence, she said, and while she thought it would take years it happened much quicker.

The Waterdown resident, a district manager for Ren's Pet Depot, said she was so impressed with NOLA that she decided to help the group as a volunteer.

NOLA was founded in September 2010. Taylor said the group has a habit of helping the "underdog," to get dogs in need out of high-kill shelters in the southern U.S. state. About nine in 10 dogs dropped off at Louisiana shelters are euthanized. Many of the dogs are abused and found wandering the streets

Taylor recently fostered a dog who, according to his paperwork, was dropped off at a Louisiana shelter at 10:30 one night with a note that said "to be disposed."

NOLA needs volunteers, she said, to help with visits, background checks, fundraising, adoption screening, animal transport, public outreach, dog training and photography.

"We need help in so many ways other than just fostering," said Taylor.

NOLA's second annual fundraiser is March 21 at Marquis Gardens, 1050 Rymal Rd. East. There will be a bar, buffet, bar, dance and prizes. Tickets $25 and available by calling Taylor at 289-260-2432.

See nolalabrescue.org for more information.


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Wednesday Night Hoops: Mercer Owns BCS Conference Teams EditionNovember 19, 2008
BCS Conference Teams Need to Stop Scheduling Mercer Right Now
Mercer 78, Auburn 74
Let's take a look at the Bears' best wins from 2007-2008.
First up, they knock off USC in a huge upset. Best win after that, probably Jacksonville. This year? Mercer knocks off two SEC schools in two games (Alabama and Auburn). Mercer still has Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State, and UCLA on the schedule, so the potential for upsets is there.
As for this game, the Bears grabbed the lead with 17 minutes to play in the first half and never looked back. Mercer led this game by as many 11 points. James Florence led the team with 25 points but did turn the ball over eight times.
Game of the Night
Kent St. 76, Saint Louis 74 (OT)
The reigning Mid-American Conference Player of the Year showed America why he deserved that honor against the Billikens. Al Fisher dropped 35 points, including the game-winning lay-up in overtime with just 2.1 seconds left on the clock. Fisher didn't miss a single shot in the extra period.
Kent State needs to win as many games in the non-conference as possible to give itself insurance in March if the Golden Flashes falter in the MAC Tournament.
Department of Mid-Majors Making a Run at the Big Boys
(25) Wake Forest 120, UNC-Wilmington 88
Wake Forest jumped out to a big lead while scoring 61 points in the first half, but UNC-Wilmington went on a 16-8 run to open the half to draw within nine. Dino Gaudio's squad wanted no more over the Seahawks and went off the rest of the game. A 51-28 run to end the game buried Wilmington.
The sophomore duo of guard Jeff Teague and forward James Johnson combined for 56 points in just 53 minutes between the two. Super freshman Al-Farouq Aminu struggled early but eventually ended up with 12 points and 11 rebounds.
(23) Villanova 77, Niagara 62
The Wildcats jumped out a 27-14 lead but quickly saw it slip away to only a four-point advantage at 30-26. The Purple Eagles' momentum stopped in its tracks when a questionable blocking call resulted in two free throws and then a technical foul on the Niagara bench. 'Nova jumped ahead by eight points, but again blew its lead.
Niagara got within two in the second half and forced Jay Wright's frontline to the bench because of foul trouble. Dante Cunningham, Antonio Pena, and Shane Clark all fouled out.
Scottie Reynolds led four Wildcats in double figures with 19 points. Former Villanova hoopster Bilal Benn struggled for Niagara, scoring 11 points on 3-10 shooting.
(7) Michigan State 70, Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne 59
The Spartans went on the road to IPFW and got a very tough game from the Mastodons. IPFW held a lead as late as 10 minutes left, but MSU went on a 27-15 run to end the game. Tom Izzo didn't really get much contribution from anyone outside of Raymar Morgan (22 points) and Kalin Lucas (17 points).
On the opposite bench, IPFW got 22 points from its leading scorer Ben Botts and 17 from its second leading scorer, David Carson.
Department of Had to Have This Game
Virginia 77, South Florida 75
Both of these programs, which are heading in opposite directions, needed this game. Virginia has been falling off the past two years, and without Sean Singletary, who's playing professional ball now, is projected to finish last in the conference.
South Florida, on the other hand, is trying to move up in the Big East behind coach Stan Heath. The Bulls are also projected to finish near the bottom of the conference, so a win against an ACC team would help improve the reputation of the program.
But it was the ACC team that would prevail Wednesday night. After scoring 28 points to help knock off Kentucky-slayer VMI, Sylven Landesberg dropped another 21 on USF in the win.
American University 65, Howard 63
The Eagles went to the NCAA Tournament last year and have high hopes again for 2009. After losing badly to Oklahoma, American needs to continue to win games to help improve its seeding come March, if it wins the Patriot League. There's a significant difference in the odds of a first round upset for 14 and 15 seeds.
One of the nation's best shooters showed off his range against Howard. Garrison Carr scored 29 points and connected on seven three-pointers in the win.
Players of the Night
Jeff Teague, Wake Forest
The super sophomore had one of the best nights of his fairly short career in Winston-Salem. The Demon Deacon guard had 31 points on 10-17 shooting from the field, 9-12 from the free throw line, and 2-2 from three. Teague also threw in five rebounds and five steals.
Al Fisher, Kent State
The Golden Flash guard put up 35 points on highly efficient shooting (15-28 from the field and 3-4 from the line). Fisher also hit the game-winning shot in overtime and added five steals to boot.
Look Ahead to Today's Action—Games of the Day
(12) Memphis vs. Chattanooga, 4:30 on ESPN2, O'Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off
Tyreke Evans and the rest of Memphis' guards will be ready to blow Chattanooga out of the water like Tennessee did a few days ago.
(20) USC vs. Seton Hall, 7:00 on ESPNU, O'Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off
This will be the first opportunity to see not only stud freshman DeMar DeRozan, but also Lil' Romeo Miller in action on the national stage.
(5) Duke vs. Southern Illinois, 7:00 on ESPN2, Coaches vs. Cancer Semifinal
The first of two semifinals on the night in the Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament. The up-tempo style Duke play will tip-off against the agonizingly slow, defensive style that the Salukis are most known for.
(4) UCLA vs. Michigan, 9:00 on ESPN2, Coaches vs. Cancer Semifinal
The Baby Bruins Fab Five goes against the school that had the original Fab Five. Manny Harris will try to slow down Darren Collison and the rest of UCLA attack. UCLA and Duke are likely to meet in the final Saturday, making for the first game between two top 10 teams in the country this year.


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TOM REED is a Pulitzer-nominated crime reporter for The San Francisco Star who's appeared in four tough, fast-paced PBO thrillers so far.
Tom's got a nose for breaking news -- and the scars to prove it. And he's also got more than enough drama in his personal life (a drinking problem, a shaky marriage), and an unfortunate tendency to get in way over his head when investigating a story.
Fortunately, he can usually count on his buddy, veteran Homicide Inspector Walt Sydowski, for help. Walt's something of a local legend in San Francisco, a cranky old-timer facing down his pending retirement, who still maintains one of California's highest murder clearance rates. It's good to have friends, eh?
One of the more refreshing aspects of this series is that while far too often the media is portrayed as cold-hearted leeches or blow-dried, brain-dead twits preying on tragedy, Mofina offers up an alternative: a true insider's look at journalism, where police and reporters actually get along (at least, sometimes).
And why not? Rick Mofina is honest-to-goodness reporter who's covered true crime around the world, and he clearly knows his stuff. According to his bio, he's interviewed "murderers on death row in Montana and Texas, has covered a serial killing case in California, an armored car heist in Las Vegas, the murders of police officers in Alberta, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD, and gone on patrol with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He has reported from the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East."
Mofina grew up in Belleville, Ontario and began writing fiction in grade school. At age 15, he sold his first short story to a U.S. magazine, and in his teens he hitchhiked to California, and later wrote a novel about the experience. He's worked at a horseracing track, deliveried cars to Florida, and attended Carleton University, studying Journalism, English Literature, and American Detective Fiction. He became a reporter at The Toronto Star before embarking on a career in journalism that spans three decades and several newsrooms. His true-crime reporting has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Marie Claire, The South China Morning Post magazine and The Moscow Times. His first published novel, If Angels Fall, was a Best First Novel finalist for an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, and he's since become something of a regular whenever the nominations are passed out. In fact, Blood of Others, won the 2003 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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Actress Rose McGowan was raised in the controversial Children of God cult, but she hasn't publicly discussed the experience until recently. In People magazine, Rose talks about her early years in the cult - which was known for "Flirty Fishing," encouraging women to hook up with men in order to witness to them - in Italy. Ultimately, McGowan's father, who illustrated tracts for the group, became worried that Rose and her sister would fall prey to sexual abuse, since the cult was preaching that … [Read more...]
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Great Reasons to Live in Geneva Tower
- Only Upstate affiliated individuals reside in Geneva Tower.
- Card access at all entry points.
- On call Resident Director and Resident Staff on premises.
- Security cameras around the building and parking area.
- Security patrols provided by University Police and Public Safety.
- Personal Escorts provided 24/7.
- Brand new, State of the art facility (LEED Silver Design).
- Housing for Students, Residents and their spouses.
- All inclusive monthly rate - includes utilities, Spectrum cable, wireless internet, air conditioned units.
- Fully furnished!
- On site fitness facility and study rooms.
- Convenient location close to University Hospital and classroom buildings.
- Open 365 days a year and staffed at all times.
- Rental Payment may be deferred against financial aid.
- Study rooms are available 24 hours a day for individual and group study.


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Welcome to Sweet Threads Clothing Co!
I have always loved fashion, design and party planning! Once my oldest daughter was born I fell in love with a new passion ~ sewing! After being complemented by a few friends on my daughter's new shirts and dresses, I decided to open an Etsy shop! My three children are now the faces of Sweet Threads Clothing Co. and the inspiration behind each and every one of my designs. If they won't wear it, I won't make it! I am amazed at how far my little shop has come in the past few years!
Sweet Threads has been featured on Kara's Party Ideas, Pizzazzerie, Hostess with the Mostess, Catch My Party, The Party Wagon, LilSugar and twice in the nationally published magazine, Tattle. One of my greatest honors was being named one of the Top 50 Etsy Baby Shops of 2013 by Babble.com. I am so excited to see what the future holds!
Shop members
Michele Brown
My name is Michele Brown, the owner and designer of Sweet Threads Clothing Co. With a passion for styling, fashion and design combined with the inspiration of my three young children, Sweet Threads Clothing Co. was born.
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- Accepts Etsy Gift Cards and Etsy Credits
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If for some reason you are not satisfied with your order, please contact us within 3 days of receiving your order and we can chat about it and work something out, however due to the custom nature of our designs we do not offer exchanges or refunds. Please keep that in mind while ordering and if you have any questions at all (ie: sizing, custom orders, care instructions) please convo us prior to placing your order.
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All of our dresses and skirts are made with 100% cotton fabric. Again, we recommend machine washing them inside out and laying them flat to dry to prevent any extra shrinkage. Iron on a low setting to get any wrinkles out. All of our seams are professionally finished.